Title: Preview custom post type posts Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Preview custom post type posts * [tbp278](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbp278/) * (@tbp278) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/) * I’m having difficulty previewing draft posts from within custom post types. If I click the ‘preview’ button it just sends me to the front page of the site. * If I create a custom post type with the custom post type ui plugin (instead of defining it manually in the functions.php file as I’m doing now) then I can preview them so I’m obviously missing something in the register_post_type declaration– i just can’t figure out what. * My code looks like this: * ``` register_post_type( 'press_releases', array( 'labels' => array( 'name' => __( 'Press Releases' ), 'singular_name' => __( 'Press Release' ), 'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Press Release' ) ), 'menu_position' => 5, 'public' => true, 'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'press-releases', 'with_front' => true), 'supports' => array('title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail' ), 'capabilities' => array( 'edit_post' => 'edit_press_release', 'edit_posts' => 'edit_press_releases', 'edit_others_posts' => 'edit_others_press_releases', 'publish_posts' => 'publish_press_releases', 'read_post' => 'read_press_release', 'read_private_posts' => 'read_private_press_releases', 'delete_post' => 'delete_press_release', ) ) ); ``` * The obvious get-out clause for this would be to define the the post types through the plugin but: 1. I have around 10 post types already defined and it would be a total pain to re-create them. 2. I need to assign separate user capabilities to each post type, something which the plugin doesn’t do. 3. I’d really like to know for future reference. * Thanks for your help Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Thread Starter [tbp278](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbp278/) * (@tbp278) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663244) * Ok so after a bit of poking around I’ve managed to isolate the problem to the rewite rule in the declaration. * `'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'press-releases', 'with_front' => true),` * If I remove it, with permalinks turned off, then I can see the preview. * I need the slug to read ‘press-releases’ rather than ‘press_releases’ so I’ve tried changing the post type name to ‘press-releases’ so that I don’t have to use the rewrite. Thats all good. * But then as soon as I turn permalinks on it stops working again. * My custom permalink structure is just ‘/%postname%/’ – maybe there’s something wrong with that? * Anyone? Please? It’s the final problem I have before this site can go live 🙁 * [curtismchale](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curtismchale/) * (@curtismchale) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663262) * First off you should never use /%postname%/ as the permalink structure. If your site gets to be of any size then it will create performance issues. Use a year or month as the leading item if at all possible. In fact using a static string like /blog/ before postname is another way to do it. * Your code for the rewrite looks fine to me so I am guessing that it comes down to the rewrite rules. Does it work if you do /%category%/%postname%/? Any time you change the rewrite code you’ll need to visit the permalinks page again to update the permalink rules for WordPress. * Thread Starter [tbp278](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbp278/) * (@tbp278) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663368) * Yeah i had /%category%/%postname%/ originally but I dropped the %category% to see if it helped. Thanks for the heads up on that though, the site will be pretty big so that might have got me in a bit of bother. * I can’t use any permalink structure. Even if I use one of the common settings it stops preview working. * Thread Starter [tbp278](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tbp278/) * (@tbp278) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663410) * I’ve still not been able to figure out what’s going on with this. * I’ve taken the code directly out of the plugin (which works) and replaced my code with that but it still doesn’t work. I can only think this is some weird bug that’s probably a one of type affair. * To get around the problem I’ve written in the capability support into the plugin which I needed but wasn’t previously supported. * [rockinthemiddle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rockinthemiddle/) * (@rockinthemiddle) * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663591) * Anyone found the solution to this? I have the same problem as tbp278 * [jlindo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlindo/) * (@jlindo) * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/preview-custom-post-type-posts/#post-1663602) * Having this same problem, previewing custom post types does not use the defined custom post type template. Anybody have any insight on how to get around this hurdle? 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