Simple Custom Post Type Archives  for WordPress

71 Thoughts Contributed to “Simple Custom Post Type Archives”

1. 
   John - January 24, 2011 at 10:02 am Reply

   Hi, Great plugin.
   I have “products” post type setup with 2 custom taxonomy setup.
   I can see products listing when viewing “domain.com/products” but get a 404 on something like “domain.com/products/wetsuits/” and “domain.com/brands/billabong”
   any idea on how I can fix this? I included my code.

   register_taxonomy(“productcategories”,
   array(“products”),
   array(“hierarchical” => true,
   “label” => “Product Categories”,
   “singular_label” => “Product Category”,
   “rewrite” => array( ‘slug’ => ‘products’ )));
   // Custom taxonomy for Brand
   register_taxonomy(‘Brand’,
   array(“products”),
   array(‘hierarchical’ => false,
   “label” => “Brands”,
   “singular_label” => “Brand”,
   ‘query_var’ => true,
   ‘rewrite’ => true));

   • 
     Oomph - January 24, 2011 at 1:38 pm

     The plug-in does not add taxonomy permalinks below the custom post type permalink. I’ll consider adding that feature in the future, but for now, you’d get to the taxonomy archive the same way you would without the plug-in.

2. 
   Nick - January 26, 2011 at 11:30 pm Reply

   I like your plugin, but when I try to use it, the titles of the posts aren’t clickable. Is there a way to fix this?

3. 
   Bill Dennen - January 28, 2011 at 9:58 am Reply

   Is there a way to set the custom post archive as the site’s homepage? Since the archive doesn’t exist as a WordPress page, it does not appear in the list of “Static pages” that one can set as the homepage.

   Thanks!

4. 
   Thomas - January 28, 2011 at 11:23 am Reply

   Hi, thanks for this great plugin.
   When using it I found that custom post type archive pages didn’t show the blog name in the window title, but something like ‘Custom Post Type | ‘.

   After looking through your code I found that in the title filter function ‘scpta_wp_title’, the $title parameter is simply discarded.
   To achieve my goal I added the following:

   $old_title = $title;

   (at the very top)
   and then in the

   if('right'==..)

   and

   else

   conditional I added

   $title .= $old_title;

   and

   $title = $old_title.$title;

   as the last line respectively.

   Window title now appears as ‘Custom Post Type | My Awesome Blog’.

5. 
   Steven - January 30, 2011 at 12:12 am Reply

   I have a very weird problem. Two custom post types implemented with this plugin. On one of them, paginate_links() returns NULL, also a language selector from a translation plugin acts up in pagination. On the other one it works perfectly fine. They are both set up the same way. More details at WP support forum: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/paginate_links-returns-null-more

   I can’t help a nagging feeling that the plugin may be to blame. Any idea?

6. 
   Chris Danek - February 2, 2011 at 4:58 pm Reply

   Just a mention that may save other folks some time. It seems WP is not always refreshing the permalink structure. If you are running into 404 errors go to Settings/Permalinks and click “Save changes” (don’t have to change anything). Fixed my problems with custom taxonomies not working on a post.

7. 
   Ed - February 11, 2011 at 6:16 pm Reply

   Hi,

   Is there an easy way to make a custom search form on top of type.php template, to filter custom post’s list ?
   I’ve been trying with:
   and
   wp_dropdown_categories with a custom taxonomy
   with no success. Any suggestion ?

8. 
   Eric G. - March 21, 2011 at 12:33 pm Reply

   Seem to have found a bug either in this plugin or in the theme. The post featured image shows full size when I use the type archive page.

   using the plugin – http://creativecatholiclearning.com/lessons/
   by taxonomy category – http://creativecatholiclearning.com/blog/lesson-category/liturgy/

9. 
   Vayu Robins - March 29, 2011 at 4:56 am Reply

   Hi.
   Great plugin!

   Do you know if it is possible to have the frontpage be the archive page for my custom post type “portfolio”? I would like to display all my portfolio items on the frontpage / landingpage with pagination. I can’t seem to find a solution for this.

   Thanks
   Vayu

   • 
     Vayu Robins - March 29, 2011 at 5:29 am

     Hi again.
     I actually found a solution with the help of these 2 posts:

     http://mark.mcwilliams.me/2010/10/wordpress-3-1-introduces-custom-post-type-archives/
     http://themeforest.net/forums/thread/pagination-on-wordpress-static-page-set-to-front-page/28120?page=1

     I just changed it to this: ‘has_archive’ => ‘/’,

     and I used this for pagination:
     if ( get_query_var(‘paged’) ) {
     $paged = get_query_var(‘paged’);
     } elseif ( get_query_var(‘page’) ) {
     $paged = get_query_var(‘page’);
     } else {
     $paged = 1;
     }

     Cheers
     Vayu

10. 
    Henry Hoffman - June 25, 2011 at 7:41 pm Reply

    Thank you very much. I just assumed it would work and I would have had to completely re-evaluate my project if it wasn’t for this.