The most important args for rewrite redirects when registering new post type are:
- ‘public’ => true,
- ‘publicly_queryable’ => true,
- ‘query_var’ => true,
I have pasted some code below which I have tested and it working fine for the url : www.example.com/people/john
$labels_employee =
array('name' => _x( 'Employees', 'Post typegeneral name', 'textdomain' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Employee', 'Post type singular name', 'textdomain' ),
'menu_name' => _x( 'Employees', 'Admin Menu text', 'textdomain' ),
'name_admin_bar' => _x( 'Employee', 'Add New on Toolbar', 'textdomain' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'textdomain' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Employee', 'textdomain' ),
'new_item' => __( 'New Employee', 'textdomain' ),
$args_employee= array(
'labels' => $labels_employee,
'public' => true,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'query_var' => true,
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'people' ),
'capability_type' => 'post',
'has_archive' => true,
'hierarchical' => false,
'menu_position' => null,
'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'comments' ),
);
register_post_type( 'employee', $args_employee );