For customized permalinks like this, we recommend making use of https://projectdmc.org/plugins/permalink-manager/ as CPTUI doesn’t handle the extent that you’re looking for. We would only be handling the slug values for the post type and taxonomy in their respective parts.
Thank you for the quick reply.
Can you please explain what “With Front” does in CPT settings? Because it doesn’t seem to do what it says. At least not based on my interpretation – remove “products” from the url
Also do the settings defined in settings > permalink affect custom post types and taxonomies? Or do they only affect the standard stock post type and taxonomy?
I’ve never fully understood the intricate details about “With Front”, to be honest. At least based on the register_post_type() documentation its this:
Whether the permastruct should be prepended with WP_Rewrite::$front.
However, an older resource, before the developer.projectdmc.org site came around says this:
Should the permastruct be prepended with the front base. (example: if your permalink structure is
/blog/, then your links will be: false->/news/, true->/blog/news/). Defaults to true
So I don’t believe it is related to the post type’s slug, but other potential parts of a given URL/site.
From what I’m seeing, not so much with the Settings > Permalinks. I’ve toyed with a few of the date based options and my CPT permalink isn’t reflecting the dates. Googling is turning up tutorials about that with one i found being from as recent as 2021, so I have to believe custom post types don’t typically get dates, as an example.
I can’t seem to get Permalink Manager to work either. I set the Products post-type to “%product-categories%/%postname%” and it’s still using “products/post-slug” instead of “category/subcategory/post-slug”
I tried various permastructure tags, changing CPTUI rewrite settings for Products post type, flushing permalink cache and disabling all other plugins to rule out conflicts.
Any ideas?
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UPDATE
I finally figured out the issue. I went to the plugin settings and changed Permalink update to “Auto-update custom permalinks” and then went to the posts and set them to “Use Default custom permalink”. They were set to use custom permalink by default.
Awesome to hear that it looks like you got a working solution.