Querying Post-Type Posts on a Single Page

[Dare Adelugba]

Hello again Bill,

I am trying to query post-type posts on a single page and I am using the following code from the Advanced Custom Fields website with a small modification:

// args
$args = array(
	'numberposts'	=> -1,
	'post_type'		=> 'building_projects',
);
// query
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );

?>
<?php if( $the_query->have_posts() ): ?>
	<ul>
	<?php while( $the_query->have_posts() ) : $the_query->the_post(); ?>
		<li>
			<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
				<?php the_title(); ?>
			</a>
		</li>
	<?php endwhile; ?>
	</ul>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php wp_reset_query();

I also created a page called page-building-projects.php. Then I created a blank page using the new page. When I viewed a page with /building_projects I got the following error message:

Not Found
We could not find the page you were looking for. You can try searching for it here:

I will appreciate your help.

Dare

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Dare,

Naming items with WordPress can cause some unusual problems when more than one item has the same slug/name.

After you create a custom post type, go to the Settings > Permalinks screen and save your permalinks again. That will flush out the permalink cache. Until that step happens, generally every instance of the custom post type will turn up a not found error.

I would also give the page where you query for the custom post type a different name/slug from the custom post type. That will help cut down on any errors there.

See if that doesn’t help out.

Have a great week,
Bill

[Dare Adelugba]

Thanks again Bill. I think I need some patience :). I did not add the complimentary function.php code. It’s displaying nicely soon as I added the function code.

[Bill Robbins]

Glad you got to the bottom of it 🙂

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