I use the Custom Permalinks plugin for WordPress. With it, you can choose the permalink of each post/page individually. It is great for situations like yours where you want to fine tune the URLs in some corner cases.
As you hinted in your question, you could use get_term_by() to return an object or array containing the term’s id, then use it to update that term. Something like this should work: $your_term = get_term_by( ‘slug’, ‘your_slug’, ‘your_taxonomy’ ); if ( false !== $your_term ) { wp_update_term( $your_term->term_id, ‘your_taxonomy’, $args ); } References: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_term_by http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_update_term
Use get_terms and output the term objects within whatever markup you need: $terms = get_terms( ‘your-taxonomy’ ); if ( $terms ){ echo ‘<select>’; foreach ( $terms as $term ) { echo ‘<option value=”‘ . $term->slug . ‘”>’ . $term->name . ‘</option>’; } echo ‘</select>’; }
The best way to do it is right before you display the options page. Right before your call to settings_fields, add this: if( isset( $_REQUEST[‘settings-updated’] ) ) flush_rewrite_rules(); Remove the flush_rewrite_rules from your other function and that should do the trick. Its worked for me.
I’d add ‘has_archive’ => true to your arguments array. That turns on archives automatically (with pagination too) for your post type. The template for the post type archive is archive-news.php. Edit For the editable text (sorry, missed the last paragraph), I would either use an option field or a custom sidebar (w/ text widget, I … Read more
If you need to add query string arguments to permalinks, use the_permalink filter: function append_query_string( $url ) { return add_query_arg( ‘id’, ‘something’, $url ); } add_filter( ‘the_permalink’, ‘append_query_string’ );
Try this if you want to link your CPT archive in a menu: ‘has_archive’ => true, ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => ‘generic’, ‘with_front’ => false ), After you re-save your permalinks, you can then add the link to your menu like this example: www.example.com/generic
I just ran a quick test and there shouldn’t necessarily be a “slug” — post_name in the $wpdb->posts table– until the post is published, so something is going wrong with your site– something has been modified. WordPress already checks for duplicate slugs. This is pretty critical functionality as certain permalink structures depend upon it. The … Read more
Before we start may I just quickly mention that for the future it is easier to reference the post by its ID instead of the URL as this is going to stay the same when slugs change. Anyway as you already have this shortcode now we need another solution. Your problem is that you need … Read more
Not sure why your object is returning the non-object notice, but you can set the output of get_term_by to OBJECT, ARRAY_A, or ARRAY_N – You’ll want to use ARRAY_A and then access the term ID via $term[‘term_id’].