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How to create custom URL routes?
I have a very peculiar requirement, hopefully I can explain it without being too confusing. I created a page template where I list some properties I get from an external XML file, so far no problems, ...
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Masking wp-content/themes/name/images to just images directory using htaccess
I'm trying what I thought would be something really simple of masking my url but cannot seem to get it to work. I want to be able to link to images in my img tag without having to type in the full ...
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My permalinks are broken! Can I use mod_rewrite to ignore a physical file?
A website I work on recently posted a file at the root of their website named "2011.html." Now, any 2011 blog posts with the permalink structure of year/month/day/post-name do not work, and instead ...
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How to remove dates from existing permalinks?
After doing some research about dates on blogs, it seems like it is a good idea to remove them from the existing posts.
Consider:
Self-hosted (on Bluehost)
Over 1,000 existing posts
All posts are ...
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Removing rules from .htaccess
I'm writing a small plugin that needs to write to .htaccess a simple non_wp_rule and i am doing it like this:
function ci_flush_rules()
{
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
...
3
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Sub domain redirection to taxonomy
Hi all I want to use sub domain for my taxonomy like that :
http://taxonomy.domain.com/apple map to http://www.domain.com/taxonomy/apple
I add this to my vhost
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ...
3
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Wordpress multisite causing Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
WordPress upgrade now receiving Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error
We have just installed WordPress 3.0.1 and everything worked fine. However, as soon ...
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Making a plugin file accessible via url rewrite?
In my WordPress plugin I have a php file that generates some stats about the blog and outputs it as a simple text file. To access WordPress functions I've included this at the top of the file:
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Can WordPress be installed at the root level, if a homepage called index.php already exists?
Can WordPress be installed at the root level, if a homepage called index.php already exists?
2
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877 views
Change author permalink
The original urls for users look like /author/login/
Is it possible to replace login by user's id?
In my dream urls should become to /users/34/ (34 is user id).
Thanks.
2
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1answer
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Change permalinks for posts but not for custom post types
Currently my permalink structure for posts is
domain.com/post-title
I'm using a static front page and a "blog" page for posts. I'd like to to change the permalink structure for posts, tags and ...
2
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Using custom post type parent as slug
I'm currently using the plugin 'Types Custom Post Type' to create custom post types (I know it's pretty easily done through functions.php but I was feeling a bit lazy!).
Basically, I'm looking to ...
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2answers
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How to protect media directory with .htaccess?
I am trying to protect the uploads directory with .htacess.
But when I browse media section in admin panel, I see user/pass popup.
My guess is, WordPress use fopen to find if the file exists. I ...
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2answers
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Clean URLs for custom $_GET variables
I have a query var show=othertemplate that I can add to any URL to show any post, page or archive in Wordpress in a different template, like this: mysite.com/[any URL]/?show=othertemplate. I'd like ...
2
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1answer
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add new permalink structure from dynamic page
I created page "play" url: http://localhost/myweb/play and inside of page "play" I include PHP code to make the new search from outside Wordpress.
And all worked, if I search from my page "play" the ...
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Using custom mod_rewrite without breaking wordpress permalinks
I am using a theme that uses posts for multiple pages, and the blog posts goes in a category called "blog", I am using the permalinks setting "/%postname%", and the blog menu url is "/category/blog", ...
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mod_rewrite enabled but Permalinks show index.php
I just installed a friends blog on my LAMP stack, which has mod_rewrite enabled (I'm using it for clean URLs on my Drupal installs on the same server). For some reason, WordPress (3.0.3) isn't ...
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“.#[random-char-string]” being inserted at end of URLs
I've seen this on a couple of sites now and I'm having trouble finding information about (probably because it's awkward to describe):
All internal URLs like this for example:
...
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How to map permalinks with accented letters to sanitized slugs?
To keep legacy entries on a blog hosted on TypePad on sync with a new WordPress installation...
How do I map this permalink with accented letters:
domain.com/no-es-fácil-alejarse-de-la-política
to ...
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1answer
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How to rewrite WordPress uploads folder to another folder using htaccess
I found that the following code online could be used to spoof the WordPress uploads folder, rewriting URLs to a different folder on the server:
# BEGIN Spoof wp-content/uploads directory
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Should I enable FastCGI on WordPress?
I am looking at my server settings and these are as follows:
WebDav : active
FastCGI : inactive
SSL support : active
Perl as Apache module : CGI-Programm
PHP module : ...
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2answers
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a one-off rewrite rule
I have one page that I need to change the URL for.
Currently, the page resides at example.com/departments/human-resources/
(human-resources is a sub-page of /departments/ )
My client wants to ...
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ReWriteRules and WordPress Multi-Sites with Sub Directories
I'm having a diffucult time getting the ReWriteRules and URL structures setup for a Wordpress 3.4.2 (latest version as of this post) blog with multi-site enabled.
www.ourdomain.com/ is the homepage ...
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modrewrite not working on my Apache setup
Not sure if this is webmaster or a WordPress question, it's a bit half and half, sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place.
Without using Multi-Site or installing new WordPress CMS' in second-level ...
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WordPress mod_rewrite is canceling/overwriting my other mod_rewrite rule
in /www/ I have an .htaccess file containing:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^.]*\.less)$ compilers/lessphp.php?file=$1 [R,QSA,L]
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Rewrite wp-login.php URLS to static pages?
I'm struggling with getting a few things in WP to redirect.
I'm using a front-end profile / profile editor, and I'm also using a front-end login/register.
Naturally I would like to redirect the ...
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341 views
Need help with simple rewrite rule (shouldn't this be easy?)
All I need is a rewrite that will change example.com/anyphrase into example.com.
Here is what I am using:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !wp-admin
RewriteCond ...
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mod_rewrite loop, redirecting http to https on certain section of wordpress blog
I'm trying to rewrite 3 sections of a wordpress site to https if they are accessed over http:
/cart/
/my-account/
/checkout/
As well as these rewrite's worpress has added a rewrite to remove ...
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Changing URL scheme, mod_rewrite not helping
We're trying to move away from the /YYYY/MM/DD/Post-Title URL structure without breaking links that are floating around on the internet. The mod_rewrite rule is fairly straight forward -
RewriteRule ...
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I have a page using a pretty url and a mod_rewrite rule matching it. I expected it to give an error but it's working. Why?
this may seem like a weird question but I have something working and I don't understand how.
I have moved my wordpress install to a subdirectory and am using the .htaccess file to redirect anything ...
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Some posts from custom post type to subdomains
I have custom post type where all posts associated with some persons.
Like: mysite.com/masters/master-name/
And i need to have redirection from master-name.mysite.com.
This redirection will be ...
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Evaluating a external rewrite rule before internal wordpress rewrite rule
I am been plucking out my hairs since last few days trying to solve this problem:
I want to convert my urls from format
http://example.com/prodsearch/category/tag1-tag2-tag3-tag4
to
...
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3answers
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Wordpress home page showing 404 error
I've had a look for anyone experiencing the same issue but to no avail.
I am currently working on a Wordpress site that previously did not have permalinks, so have added these (i.e. to change the ...
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mod_rewriting conflict with WP permalinks in htaccess [closed]
I need some help! I'm trying to rewrite this...
localhost/blog/?c=var to-> localhost/blog/var
But seems there is some problem... I get a 500 :( I also believe there is some conflict with the ...
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Interesting Custom Post Type Slug with Taxonomy and Custom Field
I have created a custom post type called "events" and have also created a custom taxonomy which only shows up on this specific post type through which the admin must select an "event category" ...
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Need to make a php file inside theme accessible via url
I checked this post here Making a plugin file accessible via url rewrite? which seems to have the same problem as me but its for a plugin. But so far i am getting 404.
add_action( 'init', ...
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mod-rewrite exception? keep #hash in matching urls?
Hey guys,
My WordPress permalink structure is set to `/%postname%/.
When I create a page with a name "FAQs" the permalink generated is "mydomain.com/faqs".
When I link to this page in my code ...
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1answer
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Use the category name instead of category slug in permalinks
How to create a permalink structure which finish by:
/category-name/post-name/
Instead of:
/category-slug/post-name/
By default, Wordpress is offering %category% tag strucure as "A sanitized ...
0
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1answer
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Can't get permalinks working!
I can't get WordPress pretty permalinks to work on my Fedora LAMP server. If I set them and click a page/post link I'll get a ""Oops! This link appears to be broken."
The .htaccess file is writable ...
0
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2answers
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Why is my mod_rewrite not working?
Ok I have a WP site using the permalink structure of /%category%/%postname%/
I have built it in the way of page templates, using category queries inside, i.e.
page-help.php
<?php $my_query = new ...
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1answer
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Wordpress and Htaccess
Removing RewriteBase / from my htacess has sped up my site which is still working correctly.
Is it really required and what is it for?
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404 when fetching image from wp-content/uploads/
I get 404 status when fetching images, and the http still contains that image. Image shows up in a browser, but the 404 code breaks some applications.
calls to wp-content/uploads/ are redirected in ...
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1answer
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Types plugin breaking because of server configuration
I have tested this on three different hosts, using a number of different versions of both Types and WordPress, and I believe I've narrowed it down to my host (Firehost) setup, which they recently ...
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How do I make WordPress revise an .htaccess file a certain way?
I've learned just a slight bit with WordPress Rewrite API -- just enough to add another rewrite rule for a plugin. The plugin works if installed in the root, but I'm finding that if one installs ...
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How do I add my PHP app to a Wordpress page whilst keeping semantic URLs?
I am rebuilding a static website for a client using Wordpress on the main domain- eg domain.com. There is also a directory of members website at directory.domain.com which I was hoping to migrate over ...
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Redirect URL Containing åäö
I'm moving my blog from Typepad to Wordpress but have a big problem. Among the urls that are exported from Typepad, many containing åäö. When they are imported WordPress changes all URLs and instead ...
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Why wp redirects me to wp-login.php when I visit a rewritten wp-admin URL?
I have this rewrite rule
^dashboard(.*) wp-admin$1 [L]
and wp redirects me to wp-login.php when I try to visit /dashboard (even if I am logged in)
Any idea why this happen, and how I can solve ...
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Need Help with Custom ModRewrite
How can I correctly send all traffic from:
http://my-domain.com/about/case-studies/clientName/
to
http://my-domain.com/about/case-studies/?clientName=$clientName
(not seen by visitors)
...
0
votes
1answer
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How can I create a smarter .htaccess file that will add a directory?
This is my current .htaccess file:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) /directory/ [R=301,L]
And "directory" is where my wordpress install is. So this simply redirects people ...
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How to configure Multisite Network with randomized hostnames?
I'm trying to convert a freshly-installed and functional WordPress into a multisite network. But I'm having problems because of our Apache configuration.
We use Apache to randomly redirect requests ...
