However, for my taxonomy the links do not have the post_type argument Yes, and it’s because that argument does not exist in your submenu slug or relative URL (the 5th parameter for add_submenu_page()), therefore WordPress would not know that you’re targeting your post type, and WordPress also would not add that argument to the links … Read more
That’s because some terms are reserved by WordPress core and shouldn’t be used as custom slug. However, WordPress core itself doesn’t check within register_taxonomy function whether a developer has used those reserved terms or not. It’s up to the developers to read the documentation and implement accordingly. These core functions are low level implementations, so … Read more
Prevent random entries in hierarchical false taxonomies
No. As far as the admin menu is concerned the taxonomies are always “below” the content they apply to. You will always need to directly manipulate the menu structure to change this.
WordPress can handle this automatically by creating a page called archive-CustomPostTypePage.php through register_post_type() function. eg. archive-documents.php You need to register your post type in the functions and the name has to be the same as the php file name above eg: register_post_type(‘documents’, array( // YOUR ARRAY HERE ));
Try going to your settings–>permalinks and hitting “Save” . WordPress is not aware of the code change you made until it refreshes the permalinks. Adding this^ so you can close this Question.
Consider instead a single, hierarchical taxonomy, where the top level terms are brands such as Nike/Adidas/etc, and child terms are models. Otherwise you face a scaling issue, as the number of brands increases, so do the number of taxonomies, and so does the complexity of the code behind the scenes.
add_action priority and taxonomy used in plugin
Sort Taxonomy List by Custom Values
You forgot to create taxonomy.php or taxonomy-video_tag.php which should be the templates to use to display your custom taxonomy term archives on. You should have a look at the taxonomy term archive hierarchy Just remember to flush your permalinks in case