Title: Permalink with arbitrary info?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Permalink with arbitrary info?

 *  [sangfroidweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sangfroidweb/)
 * (@sangfroidweb)
 * [12 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-with-arbitrary-info/)
 * I need a permalink ninja! Let’s say I have 2 custom post types authors and books.
   Within books I have a custom field, which let’s you set the author of the book.
   In an ideal world, author would just be a taxonomy for books, but I needed a 
   lot more robustness for authors than the normal taxonomy features in wordpress
   will allow, so I had to make it a custom post type to take full advantage of 
   all the “post” features. Additionally author had to have a whole lot of it’s 
   own taxonomies… anyway.. all that works. Yay.. Great.. the problem is… I need
   to find a way to hack the author into the permalinks for the books… crap. I tried
   and I just don’t have the chops. The whole rewrite rules code makes me dizzy.
   I feel like this should be possible… I’m just too dizzy… so what I’m looking 
   for is:
 * [http://www.mysite.com/books/j-r-r-tolkien/return-of-the-king/](http://www.mysite.com/books/j-r-r-tolkien/return-of-the-king/)
 * the j-r-r-tokien part is from the custom field in the book custom post type… 
   get it?
 * Please help! If you are out there, secret permalink ninja, and can solve this,
   I’ll definitely throw you a bone!

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 *  Thread Starter [sangfroidweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sangfroidweb/)
 * (@sangfroidweb)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-with-arbitrary-info/#post-3851762)
 * Anyone? I’d love some help with this. If there’s a solution, I’m willing to pay
   for help with this. Thanks!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-with-arbitrary-info/#post-3851763)
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 * This topic has now been closed as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Offering_to_Pay)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-with-arbitrary-info/#post-3851763)
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