url rewrite for custom taxonomy

  • Hi,

    I’ve got a custom post type ‘news’ as well as a custom taxonomy ‘news-cat’ (category)

    The only reason I called it news-cat (and not ‘news’) as it’d clash with ‘news’ post type. At the moment the urls are as follows:

    All posts of type ‘news’: domain.com/news/
    A single post of type ‘news’: domain.com/news/my-news-article

    We have a number of terms within the news-cat taxonomy (eg. family, trips, etc.)
    If I query a certain term to get all news of certain term: eg. family, the url is domain.com/news-cat/family/
    Is it possible to rewrite it somehow so that wordpress won’t confuse a taxonomy term and a single news item. Ideally, we’d like to have:
    domain.com/news/family/ for a taxonomy term query
    domain.com/news/single-news-article for a single post of a custom type ‘news’

    function news_taxonomy() {
$labels = array(
'name'              => _x( 'News Category', 'Taxonomy General Name' ),
    'singular_name'     => _x( 'News Category', 'Taxonomy Singular Name' ),
    'search_items'      => __( 'Search News Category' ),
    'all_items'         => __( 'All News Categories' ),
    'parent_item'       => __( 'Parent News Category' ),
    'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent News Category:' ),
    'edit_item'         => __( 'Edit News Category' ),
    'update_item'       => __( 'Update News Category' ),
    'add_new_item'      => __( 'Add News Category' ),
    'new_item_name'     => __( 'New News Category' ),
    'menu_name'         => __( 'News Category' ),
  );

  $args = array(
    'hierarchical'      => true,     // like categories or tags
    'labels'            => $labels,
    'show_in_rest'      => true,
    'show_ui'           => true,     //  add the default UI to this taxonomy
    'show_admin_column'=> true,    // add the taxonomies to the wordpress admin
    'query_var'         => true,
    'rewrite'           => array( 'slug' => 'news-cat'),
  );

  register_taxonomy( 'news_tax', 'news', $args );
}
    
register_post_type('news', array(
            'has_archive' => true,
            'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'news'),
            'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail'),
            'public' => true,
            'show_in_rest' => true,
            'labels' => array(
                'name' => 'News',
                'add_new_item' => 'Add News',
                'edit_item' => 'Edit News',
                'all_items' => 'All News',
                'singular_name' => 'News'
            ),
            'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-calendar-alt'
        ));

    Please advise.

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  • They have to be distinct to show different things.
    What if instead of news-cat you used topics? or gossip? or some other synonym?

    Thread Starter portia79

    (@portia79)

    Thanks for your reply. Yeah, ideally, I’d want to avoid using another term. I was thinking that perhaps there is some way of doing a URL/slug rewrite so that for wordpress engine they are distinct (news and news-cat) but for the viewer seeing the url in a browser they all have /news/ in the url. Is that at all possible?

    WordPress sees the same URL as the visitor, and has to figure out what to retrieve based solely on that.

    Thread Starter portia79

    (@portia79)

    OK. Thanks.

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