Issue

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I’m starting my studies with wordpress and I have a project that will be organized by categories. It’s basically a news site. Example:

mysite.com/sports/news/post-name
mysite.com/sports/review/post-name
mysite.com/health/news/post-name
mysite.com/health/review/post-name

Structure:

1 – “sports” and “health” are categories.
2 – “news” and “review” are subcategories (with repeated names and slugs, which is already a problem in wordpress).
3 – “post-name” are the posts.

Where:

mysite.com/sports > will show listings for “news” and “review”
mysite.com/health > will show listings for “news” and “review”
mysite.com/sports/news/ > will list “news” records
mysite.com/sports/review/ > will list “review” records
mysite.com/sports/news/post-name > Will show the post
mysite.com/sports/review/post-name > Will show the post

I’m having a hard time structuring my site this way. In my research I found a PAID plugin that might help: Permalink Manager Pro. Does it resolve these issues? Is there another way?

Solution

In that link I found the following solution:

The solution for me had three parts. In my case the post type is called trainings.

Add 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'trainings/%cat%') to the
register_post_type function.
Change the slug to have a dynamic
category. "Listen" to the new dynamic URL and load the appropriate template.

So here is how to change the permalink dynamically for a given post type. Add to functions.php:

function vx_soon_training_post_link( $post_link, $id = 0 ) {
    $post = get_post( $id );
    if ( is_object( $post ) ) {
        $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, 'training_cat' );
        if ( $terms ) {
            return str_replace( '%cat%', $terms[0]->slug, $post_link );
        }
    }

    return $post_link;
}

add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'vx_soon_training_post_link', 1, 3 );

…and this is how to load the appropriate template on the new dynamic URL. Add to functions.php:

function archive_rewrite_rules() {
    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^training/(.*)/(.*)/?$',
        'index.php?post_type=trainings&name=$matches[2]',
        'top'
    );
    //flush_rewrite_rules(); // use only once
}

add_action( 'init', 'archive_rewrite_rules' );

Thats it! Remember to refresh the permalinks by saving the permalinks again in de backend. Or use the flush_rewrite_rules() function.

But I have a question that I couldn’t do there:

This part:

Add 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'trainings/%cat%') to the register_post_type function.

where do I do that? Or is this already embedded in the later code?

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