Refers to the process whereby an URL is manipulated to create what in WordPress is called a "pretty permalink"
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If the only permalink setting is %postname% what happens in the case of old duplicates?
I am tempted to change my blog to be site.com/postname.
I know that for new posts Wordpress is smart enough to add a unique number to them, but what about old posts that would get updated?
I can run ...
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open all .docs in word online
Hey I'm trying to make all .doc/docx .xls/xlsx files open in office online.
This would mean that every link to a .doc
http://mywebsite.com/wp-content/uploads.link.doc
would have to instead point ...
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Many to Many Taxonomies or rewrite rules?
Im developing a theme for article directory and i would like to link some way taxonomies to taxonomies.
I had a custom post type called "company" with 2 taxnomies
Taxonomy #1 is category with ...
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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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Combine Multiple Categories Into One URL Slug
I have a Wordpress website with 20+ categories. To make it easier to navigate I want to decrease the categories, but at the same time keep the original categories. In other words I want to be able to ...
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How to modify URL structures in custom post types and taxonomies or terms
I am well aware that there are several posts covering the topic of customizing the permalink URL structure of custom post types, custom taxonomies, and taxonomy terms. However, none of them are real ...
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Sorting Posts Via Custom Taxonomy Values Using Checkboxes?
I am working on a project that has a dropdown of custom taxonomy values called "Disciplines", there are only 4 of them in the dropdown. The way it has been designed is that you can select more than ...
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Rewriting a custom-post-type permalink with taxonomy term?
I'm trying to rewrite my url for a custom_post_type named wr_events with one of its custom_taxonomy terms from event_type
add_action('init', 'wr_events');
function wr_events() {
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Allow single quote in URLs
I have a wordpress site hosted on a godaddy server running apache. My experience is on windows iss so this might be an easy question but I can't figure it out. I want to allow urls at my site like:
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Is it possible to change the URL of custom post types to hide the post type slug?
I would like to turn /{custom-post-type}/{post-name} to /{post-name}, is this possible?
If this is not possible, can I change the labels/terminology in Pages or Posts so that they could be called ...
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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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Removing taxonomy base using WP rewrite
I´m trying to create the following URL structure:
example.com/attractions <-- post type archive
example.com/attractions/taxonomy_term <-- taxonomy archive
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Changing Wordpress blog name and web address
I created a self-hosted WordPress blog (on Dreamhost) several years ago. I've never truly been happy with the name and URL/domain of the blog, and I've decided that I want to change it.
Here's what ...
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Adding %author% in custom post type URL structure?
I'm trying to do some WordPress URL rewriting ...
Specifically I have custom post type that currently works like this:
http://mydomain.com/videos/post-title/
But I would like to have it located at:
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WordPress Page Id
I have a client (same for my previous post about the slider) who believes that the url structure needs to include a "google page id" to be compliant with google news. Therefore, they want the url ...
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How to change the main site url on a multisite installation (network)?
My multisite (network) installation has 3 sites.
the main site (nothing there, just very brief information)
client 1 site -- siteurl/client1
client 2 site -- siteurl/client2
With domain mapper, ...
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Categories not working - 404 Not found error
I have a community blog at thelazy.info . All things are working except the category. When you click on any category it gives 404 Not found error. I tried searching out myself but couldn't come up ...
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Custom rewrite rule serves content, but returns 404 error code
I have a plugin that sets up a custom rewrite rule. I can access the short URL and the content is returned correctly, but the HTTP response is 404, Page not found.
From searching the web it seems ...
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Author url rewrite
The default author permalink is:
http://domain.com/author/{username}
How can I do something like this ?
http://domain.com/author/{username}/songs
http://domain.com/author/{username}/books
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How to reset canonical URLs / fix redirect loop
Couldn't find anything in the related questions, so here goes:
I have a post which, when viewed on the site, is returning a redirect loop. The error page is showing an address for the post that ...
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How can you handle rewrite rules for custom post types with option to filter on custom taxonomy terms?
I have seen this question but can't wrap my head around actually filtering on the taxonomy as well..
Essentially what I'm looking for is an archives page for the taxonomy such as mysite.com/movies ...
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In WordPress how do you create a custom post type with the author's name in the slug?
I'm trying to build a new WordPress theme using register_post_type to create a custom post type called listings.
I would like each listing to have the following permalink structure:
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How to make a category page the blog home page?
I want to use a category page as the home page of my blog. Is that possible and how can I do it? It tried it with a .htacces rewrite rule but that didn't worked.
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URL Design for Sub-Posts?
I currently have this:
mysite.com/product-name
mysite.com/another-product
etc where product-name and another-product are posts.
I then have a custom post type called Changelogs, which I have for ...
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Custom rewrite rule is not picked by Wordpress
I am trying to create a custom Rewrite URL something like
function add_my_rule() {
global $wp;
$wp->add_query_var('state');
$wp->add_query_var('state_destination');
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How to Rewrite Wordpress URL for a Plugin
I am trying to build a Wordpress plugin here with a custom user admin area. What I would like to do is when the user adds /edit at the end of the page, it should open a page from my plugin. So for ...
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Can I call a custom plugin with a direct URL
Suppose I have written a hello world plugin, the main function is just print out a sting hello world.
I want to print out hello world when I access the URL likes http://example.com?plugin=helloworld
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How to remove parent section from attachment URL?
I have buddypress installed. All URL goes under BP's URL structure. If an attachment belongs to a document in a group, the URL is:
http://domain.com/groups/group-name/docs/doc-name/attachment-name
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Permalinks for custom taxonomy stopped to work
I'm not sure when this happened, I just noticed it. I have custom taxonomies and post types.
For the longest time I was able to go to domain.com/taxonomy/term and it would display the posts related. ...
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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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532 views
How to retrieve $_GET variables from rewritten URLs?
I need to receive some special $_GET parameters for a custom page I'm making, i know how to receive this through a simple $_GET like mysite.net/products/?id=1 , but I wanted to use the URL style of my ...
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custom template rewrite
I have a page called my-todo-list and is using a custom page template.
The page is accessible via this type of URL : http://domain.com/my-todo-list/
Now I need to paginate it, and I want to look ...
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Can't add external rewrites
I've got the following code in my functions.php
function add_custom_rewrite_rules(){
add_rewrite_tag('%gallery%','([^/]+)', 'gallery=');
add_rewrite_tag('%album%','([^/]+)', 'album=');
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custom url rewrite
I have a custom search, one database out of WP, I store the page in wordpress admin panel:
http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/post.php?post=96&action=edit&message=1
Then the page's url looks like ...
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How to Create a Custom Plugin Permalink
I wrote a simple plugin that will redirect the users to a page on a certain date. (in this case it's for the Blackout against SOPA here in the US)
Right now I'm using the line ...
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flush_rewrite_rules not working on plugin deactivation, invalid URLs not showing 404
i'm just about to release a community plug-in and have a few last anoying issues.
First, whenever i visit a page that would not be valid for the plugin, www.mydomain.com/forms/tester it will take me ...
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Create built-in pages without creating actual pages
For example:
site.com/contact (or site.com/?page=contact if not using permalinks)
when someone goes to that page I want to load a theme template, like page-contact.php
But I don't want to create a ...
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Remove taxonomy base or term from url
I know there are a lot of posts about this here, but NONE of them have answered my problem.
I am working with a custom built theme that has a custom category type (named messagetypes). I have a ...
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How to redirect http://mydomain/blog/blahblah/ to http://mydomain/blahblah/ in wordpress htaccess?
I would like the htaccess rewrite rule to compare to IIS rewrite rule I tried which doesn't seem to work:
<rule name="rewrite /blog/">
<match url="^blog/([_0-9a-zA-Z\-]+)/$" />
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add_rewrite_rule and pagination issue
I've got an issue, writing a correct rewrite rule.
Basically, here are the examples of the url I want :
/myPage/mySuPage
Then the same with pagination
/myPage/mySuPage/page/3
Then, the basic page, ...
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How to prepend route with /blog for blog listing page only
My permalink settings is simply /%postname%/ (yes I read from the codex that this is bad performance practice). The result is:
a page url might look like site.com/pagename
a blog post looks like ...
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Nice RSS Feed URLs for each custom post type
By default WP seems to display all posts of all types in the main RSS feed.
You have to add a post_type query variable to show post of a certain type...
So how can I turn this:
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1answer
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Adding paged query to custom URL rewrite
I have set up the following to create 'pretty' post type and category permalinks:
function kdev_add_category_rules() {
$post_types = array(
'kdev_photos',
'kdev_videos',
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Author Profile URL
I have 2 user roles. "photographer" and "subscriber"
I have set my author.php like this
<?php get_header();
$thisauthor = get_userdata(intval($author));
$author_user = ...
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Creating a dynamic URL structure
I want to create a directory structure for my WordPress links and for the final page to be based on the taxonomy of the page.
So I have a business that belongs to a city (meta) and country ...
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How to rewrite custom post type URL for multiple depths instead of one specific depth
I got this code that rewrite the url's for custom posttypes. It works but only for a depth where the posttitle is on the 5th segment.
How can i adjust it so it accepts multiple depths?
e.g.:
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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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Rewrite URL for taxonomy listing
I have created several custom taxonomies and each "archive" can be viewed on the url mysite.com/taxonomy/term
Is it possible to rewrite the URLs so my taxonomy archive lives under for example ...
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Re-write specific custom post type category URL to go to another page
I know this general question has been asked before (like here and here), but the problem is with my limited experience, I cannot get the results I need looking at other people's code.
So here's my ...
