Making sure I’m reading you correctly for what you’re trying to achieve.
You have a post type of “scholar”.
You want an archive of scholars, who have each category of a numeral year, to show when visiting say https://nccarcssymposium.org/scholar/category/2023
As opposed to the normal category archive URLs like https://nccarcssymposium.org/category/uncategorized/
Which if I’m reading correct, would mean a permalink structure of:
/post-type-slug/category-taxonomy-slug/term-slug/
for the category term archives in this case.
Do I have you correct thus far?
Exactly. Here is what I have in the settings for the plugin. https://www.loom.com/share/e4dcc08700514e33b71d59e36b2c51bb
The thing is that CPTUI doesn’t offer anything in the ways of customizing permalinks like this. We have settings that could change the “scholar” part with the rewrites, but nothing that would insert the post type slug at the start of the permalink itself for the archive.
A key thing to know is that the permalink is how WordPress knows what to query for. For example /category/some-term tells it “ok, I need the “some-term” term from the “category” taxonomy, and based on internal registered settings, it knows that it needs to be the archive for “some-term”. Another example would be /post-type-slug/my-post-type/ here it knows it needs to find the post with the post name of “my-post-type” in the “post-type-slug” post type.
That said, we do recommend https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/permalink-manager/ for customizing permalinks these days. From what I’ve seen and tinkered with, they do a great job of making sure that the URL structure actually queries for and displays what you’re intending, which in this case is a category archive, despite the post type slug being at the start of things.
So definitely worth checking out their product to help in conjunction here.
