Adding %author% in custom post type URL structure?

Question

I'm trying to do some WordPress URL rewriting ...

Specifically I have custom post type that currently works like this:

http://mydomain.com/videos/post-title/

But I would like to have it located at:

http://mydomain.com/videos/author-name/post-title/

Is there any way to achieve this?

Answer 1

using Jhon's Custom Post Permalinks plugin it should be easy using:

/%post_type%/%author%/%postname%/

Answer 2

You can do this with your own code, without plugins.

To accept URLs of this format, it's enough if you set the rewrite slug when you register the post type:

add_action( 'init', 'wpse16427_init' );
function wpse16427_init()
{
    register_post_type( 'wpse16427', array(
        'label' => 'WPSE 16427',
        'public' => true,
        'rewrite' => array(
            'slug' => 'video/%author%',
        ),
    ) );
}

This will also generate author archives at video/[authorname].

To generate the new URLs, you need to replace the %author% part yourself, get_post_permalink() does not do this for you. So filter the output and replace it yourself:

add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'wpse16427_post_type_link', 10, 4 );
function wpse16427_post_type_link( $post_link, $post, $leavename, $sample )
{
    if ( 'wpse16427' == $post->post_type ) {
        $authordata = get_userdata( $post->post_author );
        $author = $authordata->user_nicename;
        $post_link = str_replace( '%author%', $author, $post_link );
    }
    return $post_link;
}

Answer 3

goto the permalinks section on the settings in the admin panel, set a custom structure like so:

/%category%/%author%/%postname%/

NOTE

this assumes videos is a category

Check here for more options.

Answer 4

use the following structure if you installed wordpress in a subdirectory (videos)

/%author%/%postname%/