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These functions remove the slug from a permalink for a custom post type. These should be placed in functions.php in your theme and the permalink structure should be /%postname%/
<?php
add_filter('post_type_link','custom_post_type_link',10,3);
function custom_post_type_link($permalink, $post, $leavename) {
$url_components = parse_url($permalink);
$post_path = $url_components['path'];
$post_name = end(explode('/', trim($post_path, '/')));
if(!empty($post_name)) {
switch($post->post_type) {
case 'CUSTOM_POST_TYPE_NAME':
$permalink = str_replace($post_path, '/' . $post_name . '/', $permalink);
break;
}
}
return $permalink;
}
function custom_pre_get_posts($query) {
global $wpdb;
if(!$query->is_main_query()) {
return;
}
$post_name = $query->get('name');
$post_type = $wpdb->get_var(
$wpdb->prepare(
'SELECT post_type FROM ' . $wpdb->posts . ' WHERE post_name = %s LIMIT 1',
$post_name
)
);
switch($post_type) {
case 'CUSTOM_POST_TYPE_NAME':
$query->set('CUSTOM_POST_TYPE_NAME', $post_name);
$query->set('post_type', $post_type);
$query->is_single = true;
$query->is_page = false;
break;
}
return $query;
}
add_action('pre_get_posts','custom_pre_get_posts');
?>
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