stevecoy

bcworkz, thanks for the help. I got it working by putting this in functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'video_rewrite_rule');
function video_rewrite_rule() {
	add_rewrite_tag('%videos%','true');
	add_rewrite_tag('%category%','([^&]+)');
	add_rewrite_tag('%li_video%','([^&]+)');
	add_rewrite_rule( '^videos/category([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?', 'index.php?videos=true&category=$matches[2]&li_video=$matches[3]', 'top');
	//flush_rewrite_rules(); leave this in once and then comment it out
}

add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'video_query_edit',1);

function video_query_edit($query){
	if (!empty($query->query_vars['videos']) && isset($query->query_vars['category'])) {
	$query->set('post_type', 'li_video' );
	//$query->set('posts_per_page', 10 );
	$query->set('category_name',$query->query_vars['category']);
	}
}

add_filter('template_redirect', 'video_template_redirect');

function video_template_redirect(){
//this is what tells the page to use the archive-li_video.php in the theme, you could also do archive.php or whatever

 global $wp_query;

    if (!empty($wp_query->query_vars['videos']) && isset($wp_query->query_vars['category'])) {
        include( get_template_directory() . '/archive-li_video.php' );
		exit;
    }
  }

I got part of this from this article: http://pippinsplugins.com/wordpress-rewrite-api-part-2/ (costs $6 to be able to view it)

You can obviously modify the particulars to use different custom post types. There, I just saved the WP community $6 and countless hours!

Wait a minute. I just ran the migration tool again and it worked! How strange. I did the exact same thing. Maybe it just timed out before. Well, thanks for the support and the great plugin. Will send PayPal when the site launches.

I did click “Empty WordPress Content” before migrating.

I don’t have a Joomla section or category called “Uncategorized.”

When I look in the wp_term_relationships table every post is assigned to term #1, the default “uncategorized” category that WordPress uses.

OK, I got /products working fine. Here is the dev site:

http://semler.joobble.com/products

I guess then what isn’t working are any sub-category archives and and nav menu items based on the custom taxonomy.

From the main navigation, click Products or any one of the drop-downs (Aviation, Fluid Handling, Liquid Purification). These are all Product Category-type menu items. These should all have the same grid-type layout as /products. But instead they are reverting to the archive.php layout.

Do I need to create separate archive-ps_product-{category}.php files for each of my categories? If so this is no big deal, but I thought the point of creating a custom template file was so that WP would use it for ALL archives of that custom post type/taxonomy.