@jim This is pretty close to perfect for what I'm doing, maybe it will help you out.
To everyone that needs this end result: hidden link
Im going to be very detailed to make sure its really easy with no mistakes.
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STEP ONE
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Create/Edit your WP-Types Taxonomy with these settings
My Taxonomy is for locations in USA so I named it "States" (use whatever you want of course)
--- Name and Desc. ---
Plural: States
Singular: State
Slug: state
--- Visibility ---
Make this taxonomy public (will appear in the WordPress Admin menu)
--- Select Post Types ---
Choose the Custom Post Type that you will using with this new taxonomy. If you haven't created a Custom Post Type yet you can come back to this step.
--- Labels ---
Don't change anything here!
--- Advanced ---
- SELECT: "Hierarchical - like post categories, with parent / children relationship and checkboxes to select taxonomy"
- SELECT: Rewrite (very important)
- Leave "Prepend posts with this slug" BLANK!!!!
- SELECT: Allow permalinks to be prepended with front base
- SELECT: Hierarchical URLs
- SELECT: show_ui
- SELECT: show_in_nav_menus (incase you want to add this taxonomy/category to your menus
- SELECT: show_tagcloud
- SELECT: query_var
- Leave the last two boxes BLANK! Not needed.
Scroll to the bottom and SAVE
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STEP TWO
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Create/Edit your WP-Types Post-Type with these settings
My Post-Type is for locations so I named it "Location"
--- Name and Desc. ---
Plural: Locations
Singular: Location
Slug: location
--- Visibility ---
SELECT: Make this Type public (will appear in the WordPress Admin menu)
--- Select Taxonomies ---
Choose the Taxonomies that you will using with this new taxonomy. If you haven't created a Custom Post Type yet you can come back to this step.
--- Labels ---
DONT NEED TO TOUCH THESE
--- Display Sections ---
DONT NEED TO TOUCH THESE
--- Advanced ---
- SELECT: Rewrite
- SELECT: Use a custom URL format
Write this: PostType/%taxonomy% (but use your post and tax)
MY EXAMPLE: location/%state%
- SELECT: Allow permalinks to be prepended with front base
DONT WORRY ABOUT THE REST
Scroll to the bottom and SAVE
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STEP THREE (last step)
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Below is a tiny code that you paste in to your Functions.php. If this whole 3 step process doesn't work, you may have done this step (step three) incorrectly.
FILE LOCATION: …../wp-admin/themes/your-theme/functions.php
In the code below, replace the word state (there are 6 you need to replace) with your Taxonomy Slug from step one and you're done!!
// custom taxonomy permalinks
add_filter('post_link', 'state_permalink', 10, 3);
add_filter('post_type_link', 'state_permalink', 10, 3);
function state_permalink($permalink, $post_id, $leavename) {
if (strpos($permalink, '%state%') === FALSE) return $permalink;
// Get post
$post = get_post($post_id);
if (!$post) return $permalink;
// Get taxonomy terms
$terms = wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'state');
if (!is_wp_error($terms) && !empty($terms) && is_object($terms[0])) $taxonomy_slug = $terms[0]->slug;
else $taxonomy_slug = 'other';
return str_replace('%state%', $taxonomy_slug, $permalink);
}
