{"id":466,"date":"2015-06-08T21:43:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2015-06-08T21:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:43:15","slug":"wordpress-custom-post-type-file-found-404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joetannorella.com\/wordpress-custom-post-type-file-found-404\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress custom post type file not found 404"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This bothered me for way too long before actually discovering the solution. The solution is written there in plain English within the register_post_type array, yet I didn&#8217;t think to fiddle with it.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was regardless of permalinks settings, my single custom post type would always 404. It didn&#8217;t matter if I used the default single.php or single-locations.php (my custom post type is called &#8216;locations&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>After\u00a0some Googling I found these useful link which are a useful bookmark for future reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/16568111\/custom-post-types-giving-404\">http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/16568111\/custom-post-types-giving-404<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/permalink-to-custom-post-type-gives-me-404-error\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/permalink-to-custom-post-type-gives-me-404-error<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Codex page for registering a custom post type:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/register_post_type\">https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Function_Reference\/register_post_type<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>The fix<\/h4>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my arguments array ready to register the post type:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n $args = array(\r\n    'label' =&gt; 'Locations',\r\n    'description' =&gt; 'Location',\r\n    'labels' =&gt; $labels,\r\n    'hierarchical' =&gt; true,\r\n    'public' =&gt; true,\r\n    'show_ui' =&gt; true,\r\n    'show_in_menu' =&gt; true,\r\n    'show_in_nav_menus' =&gt; true,\r\n    'show_in_admin_bar' =&gt; true,\r\n    'menu_position' =&gt; 5,\r\n    'can_export' =&gt; true,\r\n    'has_archive' =&gt; true,\r\n    'exclude_from_search' =&gt; false,\r\n    'publicly_queryable' =&gt; true, \/\/ NOTE: this NEEDS to be true or it will 404\r\n    'supports' =&gt; array(\r\n       'page-attributes',\r\n       'title',\r\n       'editor',\r\n       'excerpt',\r\n       'thumbnail' \/\/ TODO add theme support for post-thumbnails\r\n    ), \r\n );\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Notice the following line:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: php; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\n    'publicly_queryable' =&gt; true\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If this false then your custom post type will literally not be publically accessible. In plain English that just means that it&#8217;ll 404.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps fix your problem. If you find a different solution that helps, please let me know in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This bothered me for way too long before actually discovering the solution. The solution is written there in plain English within the register_post_type array, yet I didn&#8217;t think to fiddle with it. The problem was regardless of permalinks settings, my single custom post type would always 404. 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