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I changed the rewrite slug of my custom taxonomy to “dining_types” instead of dining, and my conditional works now. This means that my custom post of “dining” is somehow conflicting with the rewrite slug of “dining” for my custom taxonomy.

Between with_front, hierarchical, and the rest of the information I’ve taken in, I’m completely swamped / stumped. I feel like this should be relatively easy to achieve, but I just can’t get it. If anyone could lend me a hand in putting this multi-week nightmare to rest, I’d be extremely grateful.

They’re not meant to be shared, they’re just sort of the same idea. They’re essentially “Categories”, but each specific to one specific Custom Post Type. So I assume I should just prefix them with the CPT?

The url structure is mostly important because of the way I want the breadcrumbs to work. site.com/lodging is the main hub, that’s where you’ll see everything related to lodging, in a very customized, non-directory like page. From there, you can click on any sub-type, and go to a directory style page of all hotels, all inns, etc, so the url structure just seems more logical that way. If a user is looking at hotels, I want it to be easy for them to use the breadcrumbs to go back to the main hub, and switch to inns.

That being said, your structure for the types sound correct, it’s just the urls I would have to worry about. I believe I should be able to achieve the url I want by writing some custom code with the re-write API, as it’s made for situations just like this. In addition, there’s the with_front property of custom post types and taxonomies, which may give me further ability to get it working, I’m just not sure exactly how.

Well, they would actually be more like “pages”, not posts. I’m using Advanced Custom Fields to add a lot of functionality that posts could never do, such as:

-Determine if a restaurant has dine in, take out, delivery.
-Assign the location to a “city” field (drop down).
-Determining if a location is a Bar, Restaurant, Hotel, or more than one (for querying purposes).
-Assigning specific text fields for the templates (description 1, description 2, images, etc).

I’m not creating a blog, I’m essentially creating a specialized version of something like Yelp for a specific area. Every business is static, more like a page, where as posts are specifically for articles, news, etc.

The other HUGE reason to use custom taxonomies / custom post types, is for organization on the admin panel. With 100+ businesses of various categories, having them all reside under the “page” or “post” sections of the dashboard is sloppy. I need to be able to go to the Restaurants section, see just restaurants, and add a new restaurant if desired.

Is that enough reason to use custom post types / custom taxonomies?

Check out the images in this article. There are drop down to see specific items, sort by fields, etc, that’s what I want. I want to be able to be under “venues” or “restaurants”, and sort through top level categories for the former, or sub-level categories for the latter.