Kevin McClellan

@alenidi Shouldn’t be anything in the plugin that redirects things like this. My guess is the custom post type might not be coded correctly. Either that, or you have another redirect plugin that automatically detected that action and is now redirecting the old link to the new link, which would still happen if you create a new page with the same slug.

• This reply was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by Kevin McClellan.

@sukinoz I agree that free plugins that limit a big amount of features like what you pointed out are probably not being clear enough about those limitations in the plugin description if you are surprised to learn about this after signing up/registering for the free features.

I have run into some situations like that as well over the years which is why I tend to stay away from plugins like that. If they require a registration to use something that is free, and it’s not a app you use separately, then to me that is a red flag as it seems they just want your info to spam you about getting the premium version (this happened to me once).

I use a lot of free plugins. I understand the plugin author’s need to have funds in order to continue developing, and I do support this as I have purchased many premium versions of plugins.

Some of the things that plugin authors do with the free versions is borderline spammy in some ways, but this doesn’t happen to a majority of plugins out there.

Just as a suggestion, I would recommend discussing your concerns directly with the plugin authors if possible, by posting in their support forum from the plugins page on WordPress, as they’ll be able to address those concerns in a better way than we can here.

It’s very rare (almost unheard of) that a plugin submitted to the plugins directory is allowed to come through if it violates any rules – but that can happen after the fact as well if the plugin is changed later that adds some blockages that would have violated the rules. If that seems to be the case then reaching out directly to the plugins team via the email address shared in a previous response to this thread would be the best way to get someone to look into that specific plugin.

I don’t think anyone here in this thread was bothered by your questions as they are valid concerns and that you were just asking this out of curiosity and not to complain about it. It’s hard to read tone via a forum response – and a lot of us here in the forums can be a little direct and to the point which can sometimes sound like they were annoyed.

I hope my thoughts on this were somewhat helpful, and again, I do agree that sometimes these plugin authors need to really think about how they are offering their features. I don’t have anything against plugin authors at all as their contributions to WordPress are important.

I use this plugin all the time and have the latest version of WP installed and have no issues.

WordPress always “expects” a slug for a custom post type. If you remove the slug completely, and you have a page or post in another post type (such as posts or pages), or post in same category name which has the same slug for the content (ie… post-title or page-title), then it would conflict and you would most likely face issues on those pages due to those sharing the same full URL, which could be what the issue was with critical errors – though I wouldn’t imagine the whole site going down.

If you remove the slug, you would need to add custom rewrite rules.

I did a little research for you and it looks like, for the video post type that this might work (please note that I have not tested this as I don’t have access to the theme). Please take a backup or know how to undo this if you have problems.

function change_post_type_slug() {
    $args = array(
        'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => '/' ), // Attempts to remove the slug
        // other post type arguments
    );
    register_post_type( 'video_skrn', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'change_post_type_slug' );

function custom_rewrite_rules() {
    add_rewrite_rule('([^/]+)$', 'index.php?video_skrn=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_rules');

My suggestion would be to instead just change the slug to a different slug that makes more sense for your website. For example, to change that slug to just /video/, then you would want to use this code instead.

function change_post_type_slug() {
    $args = array(
        'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'video' ), // Sets the slug to /video/
        // other post type arguments
    );
    register_post_type( 'video_skrn', $args );
}
add_action( 'init', 'change_post_type_slug' );

If you need to do this multiple times, make sure to change the function name. So instead of change_post_type_slug() you could think about using change_video_skrn_slug()

I hope this helps or at least gets you in the right direction.

Most importantly, have a super awesome weekend.

Kevin

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Kevin McClellan.

Thanks @chrishadley for the response and for taking the time to push out an update. It’s much appreciated. 😎