ACF Relationships in Custom Post Type Permalink

• ACastillo59

• November 10, 2017 at 4:59 am

My problem is one that i can’t seem to find a solution to.

I have 2 Custom Post Types, Mangas and Chapters, every chapter published will always be connected to a manga via the ACF relationship field.

The current permalink structure for the chapter is site.com/chapters/chapter-title and what i want is site.com/mangas/connected-manga/chapter-title

Since wordpress doesn’t offer much in the way of post-to-post relationships, the ACF relationship field is great for this and i have everything figured out except for this… the permalink.

Any help would be appreciated. Please bear in mind that i don’t want to use an extra plugin for this.

• gummi

• November 10, 2017 at 8:11 pm

Hi,

In cases like you, unfortunately the nature of wp’s url, you gonna have to add the rewrite rule yourself.

You can have a look at add_rewrite_rule.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule

So, your code will look something like:

function custom_rewrite_basic() {
    add_rewrite_rule('^mangas/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?', 'index.php?chapters=$matches[2]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_basic');

Cheers

• gummi

• November 10, 2017 at 8:13 pm

Oh, forgot one more thing.

remember to go to the backend, Settings->Permalink and click save. so your custom rewrite rule will be saved.

Cheers

• athlan

• July 16, 2018 at 12:02 am

Hello,

you can do it without adding any permalink structure via hooks using the plugin:
https://github.com/athlan/wordpress-custom-fields-permalink-plugin/

and use any custom post field generated by ACF in URL permalink.

Cheers,
Athlan