Let me give you a scenario of what I’m trying to do. I have a custom post type “customer” and I can go in and “add new customer”. Here I see my custom fields such as name, logo, review, etc. The problem is WordPress generates a URL for this. This isn’t meant to be a page so I just redirect all of my http://website.com/customers/* to somewhere else so that no one goes to these pages (for now).
Is there a way when registering my custom post types in the functions.php file (or some other way) to tell WordPress to not generate a URL / actual page for it? It’s really just a slot to hold my data.
My thoughts were maybe it has to do with:
‘capability_type’ => ‘post’,
or something similar that I’m over looking.
THANKS!
OK, so there are some arguments of register_post_type that you should use.
The crucial arguments for you are:
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public – Controls how the type is visible to authors (show_in_nav_menus, show_ui) and readers (exclude_from_search, publicly_queryable). If it’s false, then exclude_from_search will be true, publicly_queryable –
false, show_in_nav_menus – false, and show_ui – false. So the CPT will be hidden all the way.
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exclude_from_search – Whether to exclude posts with this post type from front end search results. Default: value of the opposite of public argument.
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publicly_queryable – Whether queries can be performed on the front end as part of parse_request(). Default: value of public argument. So we have to et it true.
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show_ui – Whether to generate a default UI for managing this post type in the admin. Default: value of public argument.
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rewrite – Triggers the handling of rewrites for this post type. To prevent rewrites, set to false. Default: true and use $post_type as slug. So we have to set it false.
Below you can find the code:
$labels = array( /*removed for example*/ );
$args = array(
'labels' => $labels,
'description' => __( 'Description.', 'your-plugin-textdomain' ),
'public' => false,
'show_ui' => true,
'rewrite' => false,
'capability_type' => 'post',
'hierarchical' => false,
/* ... Any other arguments like menu_icon, and so on */
'supports' => array( /* list of supported fields */ )
);
register_post_type( 'customer', $args );
This generator maybe helpful, if you don’t want to learn all the arguments:
https://generatewp.com/post-type/
And the list of all arguments, as always, you can find in Codex:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_post_type
