404 when viewing a post from custom post type

Have you flushed your permalinks yet? That’d be the first step to take.

Ya I did. Go to permalink settings and save changes right? Still doesn’t work for me.

Was this an upgrade or a fresh install? I’m hedging my bets on it being an upgrade. Also what version are you on.

I think I’ve had others report issues with similar permalink structures, and I guess I am wondering if my updates in 1.0.x somehow affected the structure in ways that I wasn’t able to anticipate.

Permalink issues have been the biggest headache in this upgrade, I hate it. But that’s not your concern, you just need them working again.

I installed this plugin around tuesday if not mistaken. As I recall I never upgrade it. The version I’m using now is 1.0.8, so I guess it’s a fresh install?

By the way when I change the permalink settings to default, https://www.example.com/?p=123, the post did show up.

And I had installed Custom Post Type Permalinks plugin as well.

Another things, when I get the code and paste it on my function.php, my whole site doesn’t show at all. Just keep loading.

These are some extra information for you, maybe you can relate this to the problems? Appreciate so much on your work on this plugin. Thanks!

If you just installed it recently, without having used it before January, then it’s a new enough thing to not have my feared issues ??

Doesn’t fix the problem at hand still though. I’m wondering what the MySQL request is for these urls.

No familiarity with “Custom Post Type Permalinks” plugin.

Not sure why it “keeps loading” when you try to use the same code via functions.php

I had installed a plugin in Debug This, and I used it to see the request. And this the last part showed this:

[query_string] => types=5-watt-bulb&debug-this=request
    [request] => products/led/led-bulbs/5-watt-bulb
    [matched_rule] => products/(.+?)/?$
    [matched_query] => types=led%2Fled-bulbs%2F5-watt-bulb
    [did_permalink] => 1

Is the “2F” might be the caused of the problem?

I think there is some problem with the query string? types shouldn’t be there…

the “%2F” part is an html encoded version of “/”

Based on the query string, it looks like it’s wanting just a taxonomy archive for 5-watt-bulb.

Matched query says what we’d expect with /led/led-bulbs/5-watt-bulb.

Types is the query_var, if I recall right, post types get it as well. For example, a quick portfolio post type i have on my dev install, and a post titled “ABC”: portfolio=abc&post_type=portfolio&name=abc

Do you think a custom rewrite rules could be the answer? Or is it possible to change the query string?

I just started testing this plugin and had the same issue. But it clearup and now works fine after I went to Settings/Permalinks and clicked SAVE.

Hi, I FINALLY solved it by adding some rewrite rules in my functions.php. Not sure whether this is the best way but at least I got what I want. Below is the rewrite rules that I added:

function add_rewrite_rules() {
	add_rewrite_rule( 'products/(.+?)/(.+?)/(.+?)$', 'index.php?products=$matches[3]&taxonomy=$matches[2]&types=$matches[1]&posttype=products', 'top' );
	add_rewrite_rule( 'products/(.+?)/(.+?)$', 'index.php?products=$matches[2]]&types=$matches[1]&posttype=products', 'top' );
	add_rewrite_rule( 'products/(.+?)/(.+?)$', 'index.php?types=$matches[2]&posttype=products', 'top' );
}
add_action('init', 'add_rewrite_rules');

And John I’m glad you had your problem solved. I tried for almost a week now.

As dismissive as I risk sounding, whatever gets the job done makes me happy, at least when it comes to rewrite rules and permalinks.

I try to help debug as much as I can regardless, and we don’t offer a huge amount of spots regarding the topic with our plugin. Some points are just better handled on a per-site basis on this complex topic.