Newly registered CPT shows 404 because, the register_post_type() doesn’t flush the rewrite rules. So it’s up to you, whether you want to do it manually or automatically. Manually: Get to /wp-admin/, then Settings » Permalinks, and then just hit the Save Changes button to flush the rewrite rules. Automatically: You can flush the rewrite rules … Read more
WordPress has a list of reserved terms that you cannot use for taxonomies. From your question, I gather that “cooked” is a taxonomy that applies to eggs and “type” is a taxonomy that applies to sausage. Unfortunately, “type” is a reserved term in WordPress, so it interprets your query string differently than you expect. The … Read more
Prevent 404 when using pre_get_posts to filter an archive page
As suggested by @Jeff Mattson, hours of research and testing suggest that this is probably due to mod_security. I also investigated the likelihood of it being due to Suhosin, but I don’t think it’s to blame. Here’s the deal. It doesn’t really help if we verify that the problem is due to mod_security. We don’t … Read more
I ended up changing the post type to ‘video’ to avoid the slug conflict with page ‘Videos’. I it a WP default behavior to give priority to the post type over the page slug: How to make pages slug have priority over any other taxonomies like custom-post, post or category
This function fixed the issue: function change_posttype() { if( is_archive() && !is_admin() ) { set_query_var( ‘post_type’, array( ‘post’, ‘portfolio’ ) ); } } add_action( ‘parse_query’, ‘change_posttype’ ); Then I just removed the paged and query_string function in my code and just left the regular loop 🙂
Cool use case. Without any code, in order to load the 404 template, all you have to do is navigate to a non-existent URL on your site. Then, while being logged-in, click the Customize link in the admin bar. The page you were on, which is the 404 template, will then appear in the Customizer … Read more
Updating Permalink changes update your permalinks settings and flush rewrite rules. In most cases this fixes the WordPress posts 404 error. BTW, you already tried this and I hpe your .htaccess should be writable. Have you checked it? If not then you can change .htaccess file permission temporary writable by changing the permissions to 666 … Read more
Martin’s fix works, but a better solution is to use the pre_get_posts function. Example: function custom_type_archive_display($query) { if (is_post_type_archive(‘custom_type’)) { $query->set(‘posts_per_page’,1); return; } } add_action(‘pre_get_posts’, ‘custom_type_archive_display’);
I know this is an old question but I was having the same issue in a theme I inherited and came across this question in my search for answers. In my particular case, I found the following PHP code included in the theme’s function.php file: if( is_category() || is_date() || is_author() ) { global $wp_query; … Read more