So basically I have been trying to make my permalinks look like this:
/recipes/postid/postname
Rather than what has the potential to become this:
/recipes/postparent/postparent/postparent/postparent/postname
Users have the ability to create posts on the front end that are children of other posts. This can go on and on and I don't want the permalinks to be insanely long.
I was able to remove all parent post names from the permalink using the code below. However, this doesn't work if someone creates a post name that already exists.
I would like to be able to change the permalink to include the post id in it so this doesn't happen but I can't figure it out. I appreciate any help!
Here is the code:
function Recipes() {
$labels = array(
'name' => _x( 'Recipes', 'Post Type Recipes', 'recipes' ),
'singular_name' => _x( 'Recipe', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'Recipe' ),
'menu_name' => __( 'Recipes', 'recipes' ),
'name_admin_bar' => __( 'Recipes', 'recipes' ),
'archives' => __( 'Recipes Archives', 'recipes' ),
'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'all_items' => __( 'All Recipes', 'recipes' ),
'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'add_new' => __( 'Add Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'new_item' => __( 'New Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'update_item' => __( 'Update Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'view_item' => __( 'View Recipe', 'recipes' ),
'search_items' => __( 'Search Recipes', 'recipes' ),
);
$args = array(
'label' => __( 'Recipes', 'Recipes' ),
'description' => __( 'Recipes', 'recipes' ),
'labels' => $labels,
'supports' => array(
'title',
'thumbnail',
'comments',
'editor',
'revisions'),
'taxonomies' => array( 'category', 'recipes-tag' ),
'hierarchical' => true,
'public' => true,
'show_ui' => true,
'show_in_menu' => true,
'menu_position' => 5,
'menu_icon' => 'dashicons-editor-ul',
'show_in_admin_bar' => true,
'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
'can_export' => true,
'has_archive' => true,
'exclude_from_search' => false,
'publicly_queryable' => true,
'capability_type' => 'page',
'show_in_rest' => true,
'rest_controller_class' => 'WP_REST_Posts_Controller',
'rewrite' => array( 'slug' => 'recipes' ),
);
register_post_type( 'recipes', $args );
add_rewrite_rule(
'^recipes/([^/]+)/?$',
'index.php?post_type=recipes&name=$matches[1]',
'top'
);
}
add_action( 'init', 'Recipes', 0 );
function bvt_recipes_flatten_hierarchies( $post_link, $post ) {
if ( 'recipes' != $post->post_type ) {
return $post_link;
}
$uri = '';
foreach ( $post->ancestors as $parent ) {
$uri = get_post( $parent )->post_name . "/" . $uri;
}
return str_replace( $uri, '', $post_link );
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'bvt_recipes_flatten_hierarchies', 10, 2 );
