Title: Permalink Structure for Custom Post Types
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Permalink Structure for Custom Post Types

 *  [Krissy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krissy/)
 * (@krissy)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-for-custom-post-types-1/)
 * I’m using quite a few custom post types on a site I’m developing. The issue I’m
   having is that it will not write the correct URL’s.
 * My Permalink structure is: /%year%/%monthnum%/%category%/%postname%/
 * Now, this works fine for the general “Post”. But when it comes to custom post
   types, which need to use their own taxonomies, I’m unable to have the proper 
   output.
 * One of the post-type names is ‘cooking’.
 * So the output needs to be: website.com/cooking/dinner/post-name
 * “Dinner” being the Category that should be outputted by the permalink structure.
 * Does anyone know how to fix this? i’ve tried numerous different methods with 
   the functions file and re-write plugins but nothing is working.
 * Is there no way to output the category name for a custom post type in the Permalink?
 * The only way it seemed to be ‘fixed’ was if I utilized the original “Categories”
   connected to POST. Being as there are going to be so many different post-types
   that contain numerous different sections, I can’t have the default Category setup,
   I need to have it display via the custom post-type.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [custom post type](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-post-type/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)
 * [taxonomies](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/taxonomies/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-for-custom-post-types-1/)
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