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Nikolaj Dinesen
Nikolaj Dinesen
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Posted by Nikolaj Dinesen
Nikolaj Dinesen
6,903 Points

Custom post type - show single post - problem!?

Hi there

I have tried almost everything now, and still don't get why it's not working. I have on my testsite-environment created 2 custom post types. 1) The example in the lessons with artworks. - It works fine! 2) One called argentinarejser (danish word (rejser = travel)) and it doesn't work.

What is not working is, that i cannot show a single post. If i make a page and choose the template to show every posts it works fine But to show a single page with post type 'argentinarejse' does not work.

Anyone know what could be wrong?

Thank you in advance!

2 Answers

Jeffrey Smith
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Jeffrey Smith
Courses Plus Student 15,508 Points
Jeffrey Smith
Jeffrey Smith
Courses Plus Student 15,508 Points

I had a similar thing happen on with the custom post types on a site I was working on. I finally got the single posts to display by adding the following function at the end of my Register Custom Post Type function:
flush_rewrite_rules( false );

Nikolaj Dinesen
Nikolaj Dinesen
6,903 Points
Nikolaj Dinesen
Nikolaj Dinesen
6,903 Points

Hi, and thank you.

It didn't work for me, so i started over with new post type, for some strange reason it works now. Its the exactly same php files i used for the other one. I only changed the slug all the way through. Strange..

Good day to you!

James Pask
James Pask
13,600 Points
James Pask
James Pask
13,600 Points

I had the same issue and thought I was going crazy. I was following the portfolio example but with drinks. I'd created a template file called single-drink.php and I just kept getting a 404 page. In my situation I [appear to have] fixed it by going back into the 'Add/Edit Post Types' screen in the admin area and putting a check in the 'Migrate posts to newly renamed post type?' box (after going in to the 'Drinks' post type. I didn't edit anything else but that appears to have sorted it.