Custom Taxonomy Not Redirecting Properly

CMS & WordPress
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My wordpress theme uses a custom post type “portfolio” and custom taxonomy “portfolio-category” and for some reason when i try to view any of the taxonomy items like

http://sickwebmedia.com/portfolio-category/web-design

for example It doesn’t redirect properly. I just get a 404 error. I’m really just trying to have each portfolio category display the query of posts that it is related to when i click the link to it. I would also like to be able to view a list of each portfolio category when I visit the url for the taxonomy (http://sickwebmedia.com/portfolio-category).

I thought that when a custom taxonomy is created, it should be working as described…but I’ve been banging my head around this for a while now and decided its time to get some help.

Below is the code for the custom post type

add_action( 'init', 'register_portfolio' );

function register_portfolio() {

    $labels = array(
        'name' => __( 'Portfolios', 'montreal' ),
        'singular_name' => __( 'Portfolio', 'montreal' ),
        'add_new' => __( 'Add New', 'montreal' ),
        'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Portfolio', 'montreal' ),
        'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Portfolio', 'montreal' ),
        'new_item' => __( 'New Portfolio', 'montreal' ),
        'view_item' => __( 'View Portfolio', 'montreal' ),
        'search_items' => __( 'Search Portfolios', 'montreal' ),
        'not_found' => __( 'No portfolios found', 'montreal' ),
        'not_found_in_trash' => __( 'No portfolios found in Trash', 'montreal' ),
        'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Portfolio:', 'montreal' ),
        'menu_name' => __( 'Portfolios', 'montreal' ),
    );

    $args = array(
        'labels' => $labels,
        'hierarchical' => false,
        'description' => __('Portfolio entries for the montreal Theme.', 'montreal'),
        'supports' => array( 'title', 'editor', 'thumbnail', 'comments', 'post-formats' ),
        'taxonomies' => array( 'portfolio-category' ),
        'public' => true,
        'show_ui' => true,
        'show_in_menu' => true,
        'menu_position' => 5,

        'show_in_nav_menus' => true,
        'publicly_queryable' => true,
        'exclude_from_search' => true,
        'has_archive' => true,
        'query_var' => true,
        'can_export' => true,
        'rewrite' => true,
        'capability_type' => 'post'
    );

    register_post_type( 'portfolio', $args );
     flush_rewrite_rules();
}

and the custom taxonomy

add_action('init', 'create_portfolio_taxonomies');
function create_portfolio_taxonomies(){
     register_taxonomy('portfolio-category', 'portfolio', array('hierarchial' => true, 'label' => 'Portfolio Categories', 'singular_label' => 'Portfolio Category', 'rewrite' => true));
}
2

Have you tried resaving the Permalinks once you created the custom taxonomies? Sometimes you need to flush the permalinks and regenerate them by going to Permalinks and saving the structure and then it usually works fine. Also you can try by temporarily disabling permalinks and checking if the redirect works fine. Usually regenerating the permalinks solves the issues.

3

Yup…tried that… nothing. Thanks for the suggestion though…

Anyone else care to share some ideas?

4

For the custom taxonomy try adding this

'query_var' => true

just before rewrite true. then resave permalinks and try again

also try if the category works without the permalinks because if that doesnot work then there might be other issues