Custom URL rewrites for templates

Question

I need to rewrite some URLs to custom templates. For example, I have a page at domain.com/page, and when a user clicks 'remove' on an element, it goes to domain.com/page/?remove=54. I'd like it to rewrite to domain.com/page/remove/54.

Help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Since you want to add something to the end of every post/page rewrite rule, you probably can just add a rewrite endpoint. These are regexes of the form /[endpoint_name](/[optional_extra_stuff])? that are appended to the already generated rules for pages, posts, archives, ...

You define on which structures you want to add them by setting the endpoint mask. This is a bitmask, so you can combine different groups using the | operator, like this: EP_PERMALINK | EP_PAGES will match for every page and every permalink (full post and date-based archives). The default list of endpoints can be found at the top of wp-includes/rewrite.php.

The following code will add /remove(/(.*))? to the existing rewrite rules for pages, posts and date-based archives (for some reason they are generated twice, once in EP_PERMALINK and once in EP_DATE). remove will also be available as a public query var, so you can do $wp_query->get( 'remove' ) to get the value (if set) of the [optional_extra_stuff] in the URL.

add_filter( 'init', 'wpse2614_init' );
function wpse2614_init()
{
    add_rewrite_endpoint( 'remove', EP_PERMALINK | EP_PAGES );
}

Answer 2

This is totally simple. In you PHP script where you output the ?remove=54 just output remove/54 instead. That should do the job to change the links as you asked for.