Issues with Custom Post Types and Displaying Information on a page

  • Hi All,

    I am having an issue getting a custom post type I created to store stories from students in a summer program. Here is my code

    add_action('init', 'my_story_init');
function my_story_init()
{
  // Story Section
  $labels = array(
    'name' => _x('Stories', 'Stories'),
    'singular_name' => _x('Story', 'Story'),
    'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Story'),
    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Story'),
    'edit_item' => __('Edit Story'),
    'new_item' => __('New Story'),
    'view_item' => __('View Story'),
    'search_items' => __('Search Stories'),
    'not_found' =>  __('No Stories found'),
    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Stories found in Trash'),
    'parent_item_colon' => ''
  );
  $args = array(
    'labels' => $labels,
    'public' => true,
    'publicly_queryable' => true,
    'show_ui' => true,
    'query_var' => true,
    'rewrite' => true,
    'capability_type' => 'post',
    'hierarchical' => false,
    'menu_position' => 23,
    'supports' => array('title', 'thumbnail', 'editor', 'excerpt')
  );
  register_post_type('story',$args);
}

    And here is the custom taxonomy I set up to organize the student stories by different types.

    function add_custom_story_tax() {
register_taxonomy('story-type', 'story', array(
		'hierarchical' => true,
		'labels' => array(
			'name' => _x( 'Story Types', 'Story Types' ),
			'singular_name' => _x( 'Story Type', 'Story Types' ),
			'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Story Types' ),
			'all_items' => __( 'All Story Types' ),
			'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Story Types' ),
			'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Story Types:' ),
			'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Story Type' ),
			'update_item' => __( 'Update Story Type' ),
			'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Story Type' ),
			'new_item_name' => __( 'New Story Type Name' ),
			'menu_name' => __( 'Story Types' ),
		),
		// Control the slugs used for this taxonomy
		'rewrite' => array(
			'slug' => 'story-type',
			'with_front' => false,
			'hierarchical' => true
		),
	));
}
add_action( 'init', 'add_custom_story_tax', 0 );

    What I want to happen is for the website user to click on a student name and for it to load in a page. From what I understand, I should be able to create a page called “single-story.php” and it should pull the post information into the page.

    When I do try to view the page, all I get is a 404 Error.

    I have no clue what is going wrong as I created the exact same system to store program details, and it works fine. Each program’s details display on “single-program.php”

    Is there something I am missing? Can WordPress only handle so many different post types? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks,
    Devin

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  • I’m having the same issue. I defined a post type called ‘story’ and all posts of that type are 404’ing.

    Did you solve the issue?

    That’s a common problem with custom post type. you should flush the permalink once.
    Use this once after your function flush_rewrite_rules(); and then remove it.
    Saving permalink settings from settings may also work.

    Thanks. I remembered the same thing, I just hit the Permalinks page in the Admin and it fixed it.

    Thread Starter unwrittendevin

    (@unwrittendevin)

    I think this issue was cleared up when I rewrote the permalinks in the settings page (Settings/Permalinks)

    I toggled from “Post Name” to “Default” then hit save, then went back to “Post Name”. Flush Rewrite will do the same thing.

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