WP.org should get onto this, is a clear requierement

global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

To the very end of alll the code I have for registering custom post types and custom taxonomies. PHEW.

But does that mean rewrite rules are flushing every time a page loads? This site I’m working on can get pretty huge traffic spikes. I’m putting it onto a fast server (burstable to 1 gig of memory) but I can’t have crashing!

I’m quite new to rewrite rules here, and I keep hearing about putting in rewrite rules so they don’t refresh all the time. How do I know if I’ve used it correctly?

I had it almost working last night. If I deleted out the functions.php first, then refreshed the permalink page, navigated to a page and a post.

And then pasted back in all the code for my custom post type, now I think the order was go to a page again, go to a post again, and now go to the custom post type link.

The custom post type will give a 404.

now refresh the permalink page, now they all start working.

However, trying it again today, in the last step there after visiting the permalink page to flush the rules, my custom post page single-release.php will work, but as soon as it starts working, page.php gives the 404.

I can refresh the permalink and page.php starts to work, but now single-release.php gives the 404.

I can’t seem to get both to work at the same time.

Sounds strange. It could be any number of things… Are you using the default twentyten theme, or a child theme, custom theme?

If I set permalinks to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ then I can view single.php single-release.php (my custom post type) but not page.php.

If I set permalink to just /%postname%/ then I can view page.php and single-release.php but not single.php.

I’m working on a clean install, no plugins, and I’ve tried just about every tutorial I’ve found including this one.

So I can refresh the permalink rules (visit the permalink page) and get page.php and single.php to show up. I go to view a custom post and then I get the 404.

If I go back and refresh the permalink page, now I can view my custom post, but page.php will now throw the 404.

What could be going on? Are you available to be contracted to sort this out, I’m up against the deadline and haven’t been able to get this working…

This worked like a charm! Thanks so much!

I’ve sent you an email with some code that I was able to get working. It wont query for events say with the URL of /events/year/month/day.

In order to do that, You’ll need to do a new wp_query object in your theme file for the events post type.

Yes, I believe that is actually possible, though it is quite a bit more work than you have set up. I’ll see if I can dig up the link where I learned how to do it.

Yeah, that’s pretty easy. You can call more custom arguments on the get_post_types function, and query for specific post types, excluding others.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_types

That link has a list of available arguments that you could filter by: Such as query_var => ’something’