[Resolved] Any way for a custom post type and page to share the same slug?

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[Nick Pierno]

Hi there,

I'm wondering if there's any possible way to have a page and a custom post type use the same slug.

Here's what I want to do:

- Have a custom post type called Lawyers (uses the slug: 'lawyers' and posts are shown at mydomain.com/lawyers/post123)

- Have a page at mydomain.com/lawyers that shows the Lawyers posts.

I understand that the standard approach to this would probably be to use the lawyers archive, but I'd really like to use a particular function in my theme to output the posts ("Grids" feature in WP Bakery/Impreza). So I'd really like to be able to have no archive for lawyers, and instead have a page I can build using different tools.

I feel like I've made this work in the past, but I can't recall how. Any ideas?

[Beda]

The issue you describe is related to the Slug of Custom Post Types and a Single Post.
When both share the same slug, an error is thrown in Toolset Types when you save the Post Type.

That, cannot be changed. You can hence not have a Post Type and a Page or Post with the same slug.

Suggested is to either edit the Page or Post Slug or the Post Type Slug to something else.

For example, a Page with that Slug can as well make sense if you call it "lawyers-list", or "lawyers-search".

[Nick Pierno]

Thanks, that all makes sense. I'm wondering if there's maybe another way to approach it...

Is it somehow possible to use a different slug for the custom post type for the lawyers (let's say "our-lawyers"), make the page /lawyers/, and adjust the permalink structure of the for lawyer posts to use /lawyers/ as the parent, and not show the slug at all (like how pages and blog posts don't have their slug in the permalinks).

So there would be a page: domain.com/lawyers/

And each lawyer's page would be located at domain.com/lawyers/lawyer-name

Does that make sense? Any straightforward way to achieve that?

[Luo Yang]

Hello,

There isn't such a straightforward way to achieve it within Types plugin, and it is a limitation of WordPress, for example, the the page "lawyers" URL is:
domain.com/lawyers/
you create a lawyer post "2", the URL is:
domain.com/lawyers/2/

Wordpress will take above URL as second pagination of page "lawyers".

I suggest you try this:
1) Remove the page "lawyers"
2) use "lawyers" as slug of post type "lawyers"
use Views wordpress archive to customize the archive page of post type "lawyers":
domain.com/lawyers/

See our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/normal-vs-archive-views/

[Nick Pierno]

Thanks Luo.

That is what I ultimately resolved to do in this case. It's the kind of thing I'd love to be able to do on future projects, so that's why I continued to pursue it, but IU understand the limitations imposed by WordPress.

Cheers!

[Nick Pierno]

Hi there,

This thread seems to potentially contradict the advice I got here.

Ana seems to be saying that if this user un-checks "has_archive" they will be able to have a "/services/" page and a "Services" custom post type.

This seems to disagree with what Beda told me here "That, cannot be changed. You can hence not have a Post Type and a Page or Post with the same slug."

Any further clarification on this would be much appreciated. Thanks!