Child Page with Same Permalink Structure as Custom Post Type

  • typecconsulting

    (@typecconsulting)


    12 years, 6 months ago

    So I’ve searched high and low and I can’t seem to get a straight answer for this question: is it possible have a child page of a parent page with the same permalink structure as a custom post type?

    For example, I have the custom post type projects, which in turn creates the permalink structure /projects/project-name. I also have a parent page that displays a query of all the custom post type projects with the taxonomy “coming-soon” that is located at /projects/. That all works great.

    But I also want a child-page of that parent /projects/ page for completed projects that is located at /projects/completed. But from what I have read so far, that is either (a) impossible to do because of WordPress’ permalink structure or (b) really hard to do and I can’t get a straight answer/solution because every situation is different.

    So long question short, can you have a child page with the same permalink structure as a custom post type?

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  • J M

    (@hiphopinenglish)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Have you tried creating that page in Pages > Add New. If you assign it as a Child Page to Projects, with the URL “/completed”, surely that would do the trick? You can create a custom template for it to loop your completed projects.
    If I didn’t misunderstand your question, then that should work.

    Thread Starter typecconsulting

    (@typecconsulting)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Yes. I’ve tried that. The issue is that the permalink structure for the custom post type “projects” is interfering with the creation of child pages. For child pages of the URL /projects/ I get a 404 error because it’s not allowing the creation of child pages with the same permalink structure as the custom post type…

    J M

    (@hiphopinenglish)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Ah! Could you add a custom rewrite rule in your .htaccess to get around this? Unfortunately, I couldn’t help you with that, but that’s maybe a route you could look into.

    Thread Starter typecconsulting

    (@typecconsulting)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Yes – I think that may be my only choice in the long run. I’ve searched high and low for a workaround but it doesn’t seem to exist…

    Thanks though.

    J M

    (@hiphopinenglish)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    This Stack Exchange thread looks like it might point you the right way.

    Thread Starter typecconsulting

    (@typecconsulting)

    12 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks. I’m still trying to find a workaround, but if I can’t, I’ll have to use that.

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