How can I create a custom post type with empty slug?

  • Resolved aggressivex

    (@aggressivex)


    14 years ago

    I’m working with custom post types, I’ve developed a plugin with no problems. the problem is when I try to set a empty slug. The permalink is created correctly but I always get 404 error with this URL.

    https://www.domain.com/test/post-name/ this works fine.
    https://www.domain.com/post-name/ this get 404 , but this is that I want.

    I’m wondering if it is possible to obtain this config, without touching the core of WP and make it forward compatible

    Thanks!

    function create_post_type() {
  register_post_type( 'test',
    array(
      'labels' => array(
        'name' => __( 'test' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'tests' )
      ),
      'public' => true,
      'rewrite' => array(
      	'slug' => '',
	    'with_front' => true)
    )
  );
}
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  • Hi,

    register_post_type function build permalink with slug/post_type structure.
    so setting slug to ” will not help.

    WP need to know post type from query to show post.
    You can try hook some of query parsing actions/filters, check by post slug thats your custom post and add query param post_type to wp query before it will get post from db.

    Thread Starter aggressivex

    (@aggressivex)

    Thanks ??

    I’ve solved it.

    This works, but I had to re-update the permalinks config to see the effect.

    <?php
/*
Plugin Name: Aggressivex Network Custom Post
Version: 1.0
Author: Luis Mu?oz
Author URI: https://www.aggressivex.com/author/luis.munoz/
*/
class AN_custom_post
{
	var $post_type_name		= 'product';
	var $post_type_label 		= 'Products';

	function __construct()
	{
		add_action('init', array(&$this,'register_post'));
	}

	function register_post()
	{
		register_post_type($this->post_type,
			array(
				'label'           => $this->post_type_label,
				'public'          => true,
				'show_ui'         => true,
				'hierarchical'	  => true,
				'rewrite'         => array(
					'slug'		 	=> '',
					'with_front'	=> true
				),
				'hierarchical'    => true,
				'supports'        => array(
					'title',
					'editor',
					'custom-fields'
				),
			)
		);
	}
}

new AN_custom_post();

    that’s really neat! if i set the permalinks to /%postname%/ then it goes https://www.mysite.com/product1 woo. wish WP could automatically take the page-style permalinks so that blogs could maintain dates, but still that is a very cool work-around.

    Sometimes it doesn’t work unless you update your permalinks under settings > permalinks > Save Changes (Even if you didnt make any changes to the permalink in that page) it refresh the mod rewrite and get your new permalinks

    This seems to work:

    'rewrite' => array('slug' => '/')

    Output: example.com/headline/

    Slug removed—no extra slashes.

    Remember to flush as mentioned by @winningsem

    It doesn’t seem to work for WordPress 3.2.1…

    I get 404 if I put '/' to the slug in 3.2.1, how to do this now then?

    @ciantic

    have you tried to update permalinks after adding the / ?
    it worked for me doing that.
    The strange thing is un my virtual server I it worked directly, without having to do it.
    Don’t ask me why ??

    well, pages screw up with the / …:(

    @ciantic Yea you definitely need to flush the permalinks. To do that just go Setting ? Permalinks and then try the page again. You don’t need to actually change anything on the Permalinks settings. Just going in there will flush them.

    @synthview Screw up how? I just tested this again with a current version of WP and it works no problem. Here is a live example I just put up from work.

    Actually I stand corrected. It blows sh** up LOL. The CPT worked but it seems to screw up some other things like the normal pages and the author pages. If you don’t want a slug my best suggestion for now is just to pick something really short as the slug or maybe an underscore. I think a slug is good anyway for users. If you’re getting 404s just change the slug and flush the permalinks again.

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