Removing custom post type slug from url

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Problem:
Is it possible to remove the slug of the custom post type in the URLs for individual custom posts?

Solution:
No. It is not possible with WordPress without writing custom rewrite rules.

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Last updated by Nigel 6 years, 9 months ago.

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February 1, 2018 at 7:09 am #611650

jussiP

I have currently working solution where I have custom post type which has two post types as childs and solution is working fine. I wish to remove slug from url from parent post type (domain/SLUG/post). Can this be done?

If not, I was wondering can this be done by moving these custom post types childs to normal pages? (Pages have no additional slugs in url). We have encountered earlier a problem in similar situation, where custom post childs of pages converted from custom posts to pages when saving the page.

February 1, 2018 at 11:57 am #611760

Nigel

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Hi there

WordPress does not support this, it explicitly requires that custom posts use a slug in their URL. By default it is the slug of the custom post type, but it can be changed to whatever URL-appropriate text you like (in the options section when editing your custom post type).

It requires the slug to avoid possible ambiguity resolving URLs, e.g. how else would it know whether site.com/first referred to a page called "first" or to a custom post type called "first".

Types simply adopts these WordPress requirements.

You can override them at your own risk by a custom code solution, such as is described here: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/204210/35739

Types lets you create post relationships between posts of different types, so you could make the parent post type "pages", and then you could publish parent posts without a slug in the URL.