ACF CPT URL to include $post_id

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#1

I know this may not be the best place to post this question but I’m wondering if anyone knows how to accomplish this. I have several CPTs and I want one specifically to have the post ID in the URL instead of the slug as they have by default. I see within the ACF interface an option to rewrite the URL but I’m not sure how to do this and insert a variable like that.

#2

Hello Nicholas,

Thanks for writing in! What you are trying to accomplish requires custom PHP coding. You can utilize the post_type_link filter.

For example;

// Retain the URLs of the News Post Type and News Articles
// =============================================================================
function custom_news_post_type_permalink($post_link, $post) {
    if ($post->post_type == 'news') {
        return home_url('news/' . $post->ID . '/');
    }
    return $post_link;
}
add_filter('post_type_link', 'custom_news_post_type_permalink', 10, 2);

function custom_news_post_type_rewrite_rules() {
    add_rewrite_rule('^news/([0-9]+)/?$', 'index.php?post_type=news&p=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_news_post_type_rewrite_rules', 100);

The above code will give you https://example.com/news/12345 where {12345} is the ID of the news article item. The posts in your blog will still have the https://example.com/blog/hello-word/

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Kindly let us know how it goes.