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1. 

   wlanni
   Member

   Hello,

   I'm adding Taxonomies via code, registering them in my functions.php. When I enter the taxonomy in as a url, (not a term, but the taxonomy itself), I get a 404.

   This occurs even with a custom taxonomy-x.php page.

   For example, I created a "venues" taxonomy:

   //Add venues TAXONOMY!!!
   function create_venues_taxonomy() {
     $labels = array(
       'name' => _x( 'Venues', 'taxonomy general name' ),
       'singular_name' => _x( 'Venue', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
       'search_items' =>  __( 'Venues' ),
       'all_items' => __( 'All Venues' ),
       'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Venue' ),
       'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Venue:' ),
       'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Venue' ),
       'update_item' => __( 'Update Venue' ),
       'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Venue' ),
       'new_item_name' => __( 'New Venue Name' ),
       'menu_name' => __( 'Venues' ),
     ); 	
   
     register_taxonomy(
     	'venues',
     	 '',
     	 array(
   	    'hierarchical' => true,
   	    'labels' => $labels,
   	    'show_ui' => true,
   	    'query_var' => true,
   	    'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'explore-the-era/venues','with_front' => false),
   	    'has_archive' => true
   	 )
     );
   }
   add_action( 'init', 'create_venues_taxonomy', 0 );

   I then create several terms for the taxonomy in the backend, like "Art Schools" and "Galleries".

   I create a custom post type called Locations:
   

   function create_pst_locations() {
   	$labels = array (
   		'name' => _x('Locations', 'post type general name'),
   		'singular_name' => _x('Location', 'post type singular name'),
   		'add_new' => _x('Add New', 'Location'),
   	    'add_new_item' => __('Add New Location'),
   	    'edit_item' => __('Edit Location'),
   	    'new_item' => __('New Location'),
   	    'view_item' => __('View Location'),
   	    'search_items' => __('Search Locations'),
   	    'not_found' =>  __('No Locations found'),
   	    'not_found_in_trash' => __('No Locations found in Trash'),
   	    'parent_item_colon' => '',
   	);
   	$supports=array('title', 'editor', 'custom-fields', 'revisions', 'excerpt', 'author', 'thumbnail');
   
   	$taxonomies = array('neighborhoods','decades','venues');
   
   	register_post_type( 'location',
   		array(
   			'hierarchical'=>false,
   			'publicly_queryable' => true,
   			'capability_type' => 'post',
   			'query_var' => true,
   			'rewrite' => array('slug'=>'explore-the-era/locations', 'with_front' => true),
           	'has_archive' => true,
   			'labels' => $labels,
   			'public'=>true,
   			'menu_position'=>22,
   			'supports'=>$supports,
   			'taxonomies'=>$taxonomies,
   			'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
   		)
   	);
   }
   add_action('init','create_pst_locations');

   I then create several Location posts, and attach different Venues (art school, gallery, etc) to those post.

   I then created a taxonomy-venues.php, a copy of my taxonomy.php

   I try to navigate to /explore-the-era/venues

   and I get a 404.

   However, if I navigate to /explore-the-era/venues/art-schools I get a listing of the posts that have been assigned to Venues / Art Schools.

   Posted 9 months ago #
2. 

   roowilliams
   Member

   I hope you're not still stuck on this, but if so then update your permalinks. It's caught me out a few times today already.

   Posted 9 months ago #
3. 

   middlesister
   Member

   Maybe I am missing something, but isn't this expected behaviour?

   A custom taxonomy is a new way to label your posts, just as categories and tags are two built-in taxonomies. The template category.php is the template for displaying the terms (the actual named categories) in the taxonomy "category". In the same way, your template file taxonomy-venues.php is the template for displaying the terms (art school, gallery etc) in your taxonomy "venue".

   With permalinks set, www.yoursite.com/category/my-category will use category.php but www.yoursite.com/category/ will return 404 not found, just like for your taxonomy. I think wordpress is looking for a Page with the slug of 'category', or 'venues' in this case.

   The way to list the categories (all the terms in the taxonomy "category") is to use wp_list_category(). Similarly, you can list all your venues (the terms in your taxonomy "venues") with

   $args = array(
       'taxonomy' => 'venues'
   );
   wp_list_category( $args );

   What kind of listing were you expecting? Maybe you would need a custom query and loop instead.

   Posted 9 months ago #

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