WordPress Custom Taxonomies

Question

I have the following code to build a custom taxonomy for my portfolio:

add_action( 'init', 'create_pc_db_taxonomies', 0 );

function create_pc_db_taxonomies() {
    register_taxonomy( 'type', 'post', array( 'hierarchical' => true, 'label' => 'Type', 'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'type' ) ) );
}

I have created a portfolio category on my site (I removed the /category/ base) and have created some items and set the custom taxonomies against them. So I get the following setup: http://domain.com/portfolio/item1/ but what I want is for the taxonomy links to look like this: http://domain.com/portfolio/type/web and then this will show a list of portfolio items related to the that type. At the moment they are root like http://domain.com/type/web these create 404's, but I have also tried adding 'portfolio/type' as the taxonomy slug but it just creates a 404 as well, but i'm pretty sure this is the wrong way of doing it anyways. Any help?

Thanks

EDIT: The site is here: http://driz.co.uk/ all the work is in a category called Portfolio and under each pic is the title and custom taxonomy (if you click on them you will get the 404)

Answer 1

I'm sure you can fake a slug like that, using portfolio/type - the key is, once you've updated your code, you'll need to flush the rewrite rules.

Do this by simply re-saving your permalink settings in the admin.

Answer 2

How did you remove the category base? In .htaccess and with a rule in Dashboard/ Settings/Permalinks? Or with a plugin like WordPress › WP No Category Base « WordPress Plugins?

Answer 3

Make sure all plugins are disabled (at least ones that tweak with rewrites), and delete the option rewrite_rules in your wp_options table.

Now remove any hooks in your theme that meddle with custom taxes and post types, and run this on init;

register_taxonomy(
    'type',
    'post',
    array(
        'hierarchical' => true,
        'label' => 'Type',
        'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'portfolio/type')
    )
);

In your permalink settings, choose one of the default options, and make sure both a category and tag base is set, then update.

Dump $wp_rewrite as you did before, and you should see a few lines like so;

[portfolio/type/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?type=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
[portfolio/type/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?type=$matches[1]

These should be near the very beginning of the array, before tags, categories and the like.

Let me know how you get on!

(When I run the code in my install of WP 3.0-beta-2 it works, so I assume something funky is happening at the moment).