A permanent link to an item (a blog post, an attachment, ...). The default structure is "?p=123", but WordPress can handle "pretty permalinks" and will rewrite them internally to the former version. If you have a question about special rewrite structures you should use the [url-rewriting] tag.
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votes
4answers
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Custom post types, taxonomies, and permalinks
This is driving me nuts and I'm sure it's simple but nothing I search for comes up with a simple structure (everything is very complex).
I have a custom post type "product_listing" and a custom ...
14
votes
3answers
2k views
Adding categories to custom post type in permalink
I know people have asked this before and have gone as far as adding the custom post type, and rewrite for permalink.
The problem is I have 340 existing categories which I would like to continue ...
13
votes
1answer
9k views
Need help with add_rewrite_rule
SOLUTION
I've gone with Update 3 and have got it working. What I had misunderstood, was that I believed that a rewrite rule would change designers/?designer=some-designer&bid=9 to ...
12
votes
2answers
5k views
Mixing custom post type and taxonomy rewrite structures?
Basically I want to achieve a glossary using custom post types and have some issues setting up rewrites the way I want them to be. I want it like that:
The main glossary URL:
...
11
votes
3answers
15k views
Get page link from slug?
Is is possible to get a page's permalink from the slug alone? I'm aware that you can get the page's permalink from the ID using get_page_link():
<a href="<?php echo get_page_link(40); ...
10
votes
7answers
5k views
Remove taxonomy slug from a custom hierarchical taxonomy permalink
I created a 'forum' taxonomy, using these rules:
register_taxonomy(
'forum',
array('topic'),
array(
'public' => true,
'name' => _a('Forums'),
'singular_name' => ...
10
votes
2answers
4k views
How to create a permalink structure with custom taxonomies and custom post types like base-name/parent-tax/child-tax/custom-post-type-name
I've been combing this site and google for the answer and I've come up completely empty. Basically I want to do exactly what this post asks, but I need a hierarchical taxonomy. The answer given in ...
10
votes
3answers
515 views
Performance of my permalink structure?
I have read the discussion on the performance of different permalinks on the wp hackers mailinglist, THIS forum and around Google.
I could however not really deduce if the permalink structure I have ...
8
votes
5answers
575 views
Getting hierarchical custom post type permalinks to work just like pages
I've dug through every question here on custom post type permalinks, but most seem to be either problems with custom taxonomy rewrites, or the obvious missing of flush_rewrite_rules(). But in my case, ...
8
votes
3answers
868 views
What is the best permalink structure for SEO?
In the past I've used the Day and Name or Month and Name settings.
Should the date structure be omitted and just have
/%postname%/
?
Ie does having the date information reduce the quality of the ...
8
votes
3answers
3k views
WordPress Rewrite Rules for Custom Post Type and Taxonomy
I have found this place to be a good source of information in the past through a lot of Googling for the problems I have run into. My question pertains to the verbose rewrite rules WordPress uses.
I ...
7
votes
3answers
1k views
Can't get a custom template taxonomy page to display
I've been trying to wade my way through learning the ins and outs of taxonomies and how to integrate them into themes and I've run into a pretty basic issue that I can't seem to figure out.
I started ...
7
votes
1answer
2k views
Shouldn't this be easy?! Custom post type/custom taxonomy permalink
So this is driving me absolutely insane. I've spend days trying to fix this and I can't work out why this is so difficult as surely this is a very common permalink structure!
I looked through ...
6
votes
1answer
6k views
Passing and retrieving query vars in wordpress
I have two authors pages, one displays about 5 posts. Then I'm trying to setup another page that will be all of their posts. I have created a template called moreauthorposts.php and I'm trying to ...
6
votes
1answer
3k views
Taxonomy, Terms, and Template Files
I have post type 'product' and hierarchical taxonomy 'types' attached to it. In this taxonomy, I have terms: 'dry-clean', 'washer', etc. With several sub terms on each terms.
In my situation, I need ...
6
votes
1answer
2k views
Pretty permalinks for search results with extra query var
I'd like to know how I can rewrite a search URL that also contains an extra query var into a pretty permalink using wp_redirect and the template_redirect hook.
I have taken the code from the Nice ...
6
votes
1answer
112 views
Removing unnecessary numbers appended to postname in permalinks
I have, with help from Milo managed to tweak the permalinks for my custom post type so that they include the year and month of the event. e.g.
mysite.com/events/2013/january/fishing-trip
...
6
votes
1answer
266 views
Permalink with sub-sub-category and post name
Working on a new theme project and I created a custom post type called products with its own custom taxonomy.
I want the URL structure to be:
...
6
votes
2answers
249 views
Permalink Structure for Multiple Post Type Archives by Taxonomy
Recently I have been working on an advanced WordPress project, and I'm stuck with changing permalink structure for custom post types.
I have created 3 post types lets say: type1, type2, type3 and a ...
6
votes
1answer
584 views
Permalink not working for page without title
I am testing a Wordpress theme using the Wordpress Theme Unit Test test data. One of the test posts has no title. Wordpress generates a permalink of the form:
<my-site>/posts/14/
(my ...
5
votes
2answers
426 views
Permalink format: singular or plural
The default is singular, e.g.
http://example.com/category/apple/
But I am wondering if it is better to use the plural form, e.g.
http://example.com/categories/apple/
Are there any guideline on ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
Add extra parameters after permalink?
How can I add extra parameters after a permalink, specifically if I'm using a custom post type?
For example, let's say http://mysite/album/record-name was the permalink. How can I make ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
How to prevent apostrophes and quotes from appearing in permalinks?
I'm using custom permalinks "/%category%/%postname%/". Whenever a post title contains quotes or apostrophes they appear in the URL.
Can someone tell me how prevent them from appearing in the slug?
...
5
votes
1answer
346 views
Rewrite Rule for Multilingual Website, Like qTranslate?
I would like to write my own little plugin for language switching. For that, the very first thing would be to get the rewrite rules running. I have been looking around the web for 2 hours, but I ...
5
votes
2answers
2k views
Wordpress slug issue with non-latin characters
I'm using permalinks in WP as: domain.com/category/post_name
The issue is that post names have non-latin characters such as chinese, hebrew, and arabic. So it encodes them to something like: ...
5
votes
2answers
875 views
How does WordPress handle permalinks?
WordPress auto corrects the permalinks(URLs) even if it is entered incorrectly. For e.g. WordPress will land you in example.com/some-post even if you enter example.com/idontexist/some-post or even ...
5
votes
5answers
3k views
Wordpress 3.3 custom post type with /%postname%/ permastruct?
There is earlier post with similar title, but it does not look in to the WordPress 3.3, and that is important as 3.3 advertises interestingly: "Use the postname permalink structure without a ...
5
votes
4answers
695 views
How do I append multiple taxonomies to the URL?
Multiple taxonomies in URL
How does one append multiple taxonomies to the URL having the following:
Post Type: products
Taxonomy: product_type
Taxonomy: product_brand
Adding new ...
5
votes
1answer
100 views
Rewriting every url
I have a question regarding permalinks and rewriting url's. I am writing a translation plugin and I would like to add the language shortcode in my url (Something like ...
5
votes
1answer
157 views
Date based URLs for custom posts and pagination
I have created a custom permalink structure for a custom post type (events) using the code below:
$GLOBALS["wp"]->add_query_var("event_year");
$GLOBALS["wp"]->add_query_var("event_monthnum");
...
5
votes
4answers
121 views
Post type child of another post type
This may be a stupid question but is it possible to have a post type child of another post type?
Let me explain with an example:
I created 2 post types, "Actors" and "Galleries".
What i want is to ...
5
votes
3answers
205 views
Prevent Wordpress from abbreviating-long-slugs…-in-the-admin
On post edit pages, when a slug exceeds a certain number of characters, Wordpress abridges it with an ellipsis (...). For example, if my slug is i-want-to-be-able-to-see-this-slug, it appears on the ...
5
votes
2answers
4k views
How to handle a hierarchy with custom post types
I have moved into WordPress for a few days and was quite impressed by all the available features, plugins and polished themes. I have spent quite some times reading documentation about themes and ...
5
votes
1answer
137 views
Wordpress Permalink changes to question mark (?) in URL
My Permalink custom url is /%post_id%/%postname%/
and my website is in Persian language, for some posts the Permalink is change in URL from
...
4
votes
2answers
289 views
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 ...
4
votes
3answers
3k views
Setting up WordPress with Custom Permalinks and no .htaccess File?
I have a client that strongly prefers to disable .htaccess files because they like to set the Apache configurations themselves. However, they still want SEO-friendly URLs.
Is there a way to have ...
4
votes
1answer
50 views
When creating a WordPress page, a “-2” suffix is added to new pages' permalinks
I have noticed after deleting an original page in WordPress with lets say a permalink of your_domain.com/contact/ and then trying to recreate the same page with the same name/slug, my WP is generating ...
4
votes
3answers
1k views
Add .html (dot HTML) extension to custom post types
Is there any way to add the .html extension to custom post types without plugin ?
For posts I can use /%postname.html on the permalink settings
For pages I can use:
add_action('init', ...
4
votes
1answer
42 views
How to i18n slugs for templates?
some templates are chosen from WordPress based on slugs (e.g. category-{slug}.php).
Problem:
How can I use the same template for an i18n'ed slug?
Example:
I have a category-news.php and an english ...
4
votes
1answer
137 views
Does WordPress automatically do 301 redirect if I change permalink
I don't know how to check this but it seems to do the redirection when I change the permalink structure.
4
votes
1answer
166 views
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 ...
4
votes
1answer
749 views
Passing variables through permalink structure
I have a WordPress page which is accessible via /accommodation/.
What I want to be able to do is pass in a parameter using the URL - ie going to /accommodation/value1/ would load the same page as ...
4
votes
1answer
72 views
Page permalink conflict with Date
I need to access a page which is name 2011.
The trouble is that WP thinks that I am trying to read the 2011 posts of my blog.
The only way I can make it work for the moment, is to change the ...
4
votes
1answer
376 views
Why does `get_permalink()` produces an add. DB request without $post->filter?
I'm currently working on a custom loop/query where I need to add the permalink of a post to the array of posts I'm retrieving from the DB.
Sadly get_permalink() produces one additional DB request ...
4
votes
2answers
4k views
How do I add /blog/ as a prefix to permalink structure for blog posts, tag pages, etc.?
I'm using Wordpress 3.1.3 as a full CMS, installed in the root directory of a domain. I have it setup using the built in options to have a static page as the home page, and then my blog at ...
4
votes
1answer
343 views
WordPress search: pretty URLs (permalinks), custom post types and pagination
I have three separate search boxes on my website: species CPT search, glossary CPT search and a general search which I'd like to search post and species post types.
My questions are threefold,
...
4
votes
1answer
337 views
Rewrite rule for Custom post type Monthly and Yearly archive
I have a custom post type "contest_recipe". I can view contest recipe posts by year and by date with the following urls:
http://example.com/2011/?post_type=contest_recipe - shows all 2011 contest ...
4
votes
3answers
954 views
Using /%postname% for a custom post type
I have a custom post type whose permalink needs to sit in the same space as pages, like so:
/an-example-thing <-- custom post type 'thing'
/about-the-things <-- a normal page
I'm well ...
4
votes
1answer
166 views
Dynamic taxonomy in permalink made all other posts NOT FOUND?
I added my taxonomies in the permalink instead of the Custom Post Type's slug, and it works fine. I'd even say everything was working fine but changing the WP installation to Multisite broke all other ...
4
votes
2answers
160 views
Archive permalinks
This site has been very helpful for me in learning how to rewrite permalinks using add_filters to solve issues we were having when we merged two blogs into one. But, I do have one item I have been ...
