Custom Taxonomy Terms Page Not Found

  • Resolved dorich

    (@dorich)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    I’m getting a Page Not Found message when clicking on the link to display the terms in a taxonomy

    Scenario:
    I have a custom post type called glossary
    Attached is a custom taxonomy called section with the rewrite set to “library/glossary-start-here”

    I want a page that lists the terms in the taxonomy. This is a WordPress page with the slug of “glossary-sections” – the template for the page is set to “taxonomy-section.php”. The page is a child of “library” and so the permalink for the page is “example.com/library/glossary-starts-here/glossary-sections/“

    The template “taxonomy-section.php” has the following code:

    <?php // Begin header section.
$argterms=array(
	'include' =>array(
		117,118,115)
	);
$terms = get_terms('section', $argterms);
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($terms as $term) {
    echo '<h3><a href="'.get_term_link($term->slug, 'section').'">' . $term->name . '</a></h3>';
}
echo '</ul>'; ?>
<div>
<?php

    When clicking on the link to the page “glossary-sections”, which is used on a number of other pages, I get a page not found message.

    I’d appreciate any suggestions on why this isn’t working and how to correct it.
    I’m particularly puzzled by the fact that I can specify a page like “glossary-section” and yet have it not be found.

    Thanks.

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  • wpismypuppet

    (@wordpressismypuppet)

    This might be silly, but have you visited settings->permalinks? You don’t have to change anything, but just visiting that page resets the permalinks. This is a common fix for a lot of taxonomy rewrites.

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    @wpismypuppet

    Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve been trying that as part of my experimentation, however, it doesn’t solve the problem.

    wpismypuppet

    (@wordpressismypuppet)

    So to get this straight… you have a physical page with a slug called “library”, a child page with a slug called “glossary-section” and a custom taxonomy where the terms will display as “library/glossary-start-here/[term-name-here]”, correct?

    And you want to be able to see a page called “library”, a taxonomy archive called “glossary-section”, and when any term is clicked, a taxonomy term page called “/library/glossary-start-here/[term-name-here]”??? Is that correct?

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    @wpismypuppet
    Apologies if my description is unclear, there are couple of modifications to your description. Hopefully this clarifies the description of my setup:

    Page Structure
    Page: Library (contains a link to glossary-sections)
    Page: glossary- start-here
    Page: glossary-sections (List of taxonomy terms on this page)
    Page: taxonomy archive listing glossary posts under the selected term

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    @wpismypuppet
    Ah, that list didn’t come out as expected, hopefully this will display

    page Structure

    • Library
    • glossary-start-here
    • glossary-sections
    • taxonomy archive
    wpismypuppet

    (@wordpressismypuppet)

    Do you have a custom post or custom taxonomy that shares the slug “glossary-sections” by any chance?

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    @wpismypuppet
    No. I just checked back to make sure.
    Also one of the experiments I ran was to change the slug of the page “glossary-sections” to “section”. Then changed the calling link to match. Then visited the permalink settings.
    That didn’t solve the problem, so it appears I don’t have any conflicting slugs.

    wpismypuppet

    (@wordpressismypuppet)

    Well, that test wouldn’t work, right? Cause you have a custom taxonomy called “section”. Change “glossary-sections” permalink to something completely unique and see if you can access the page that way.

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    Unfortunately not.
    Changed the slug to “unique”, changed the calling link and revisited the permalink settings.

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    It appears that the source of the problem was adding the rewrites. These seem to be unnecessary for my purposes. Once removed everything appears to work as expected.

    wpismypuppet

    (@wordpressismypuppet)

    Wonderful! I’m glad you could pin point the issue… We had a similar issue with custom posts and custom taxonomies and pages that need to share slugs and paths… I was looking into that as another choice which involved custom rewrite rules, but your solution worked, so right on!

    Thread Starter dorich

    (@dorich)

    @wpismypuppet
    Thanks so much for your help.
    Time is valuable and I appreciate you giving up some of your time to help.

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