Refers to the process whereby an URL is manipulated to create what in WordPress is called a "pretty permalink"

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uploading Attachments with permalinks based on parent file structure

We are rebuilding a public-interest site centered on civil rights research & document archives. The links in years of published info posts must be preserved in WordPress, and future uploaded ...
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Create permalink structure for one taxonomy archive per custom post type

So, I've been going crazy trying to figure this out. Essentially, I've created two custom post types, 'the_case_study' and 'the_video', with respective slugs 'case-studies' and 'videos'. I've also ...
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Custom Post Type - Rewrite slug [duplicate]

I have a custom post type (products) that I would like to change the slug for. I have a main product page that shows all product categories. After clicking on the category, it shows all products in ...
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Permalinks so that one custom post type appears to be a child of another, not working

Currently I have two post types, "products" and "products-data" they are separate post types; however, for all intents and purposes products-data is a child post of products. The relation is ...
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Rewrite custom post type url's adding meta box values

I've got these custom post types (CPT) and meta boxes: Movies (CPT) Genre (Meta box) Genres (CPT) If one movie is called Die hard then I want the permalink to be: /genres/action/die-hard This ...
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Custom Post Type and Rewrite Slug Not working for Archive page

I'm hoping someone can help me out. I asked this on Wordpress.org but figured no harm in asking here too. I read an article about using a custom plugin to create custom post types. So I did. ...
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How to redirect/rewrite all /wp-login requests

Is there any simple way to have wordpress, php or apache rewrite all urls which involve /wp-admin to /admin? I have added this entry to my .htaccess file: RewriteRule ^admin /wp-login.php [L] ...
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database not responding on localhost

I'm trying to work on an existing WordPress site on my Mac using MAMP. I've setup a new database using phpMyAdmin and imported the tables from the backup of the online version. I pasted this into ...
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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 improve WordPress security by hiding non public facing files?

e.g. curl -I http://ma.tt/blog/wp-config.php 200 OK The wp-config.php is not public facing file, since it currently just return blank page, so why not return 404 instead. (so will not be cached by ...
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how to move another machine or server without dealing with IP

Wordpress website for a small company. i am able to install wordpress in IIS server. my doubt is when installing , i am giving the ip address as "192.168.0.101:87".Everything works fine.I created ...
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WP Login forms action URLs displayed as pretty URLs in browser (ex with Restore Password)

I would like to use the WP native login/register/restore password/.. functionality, but display pretty URLs instead of wp-login.php I've been looking at the core code and noticed that most login ...
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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 obfuscate theme directory URLs

I'm rewriting this question because I realized it was totally unclear what I want to do. I'm looking for a way to "obscure" the theme directory so that absolute URLs that reference things like images ...
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How to redirect image attachment to its original post

I'm making a slider that is getting images from attachments in the post. I am trying to rewrite the url for the post so that if someone pastes the direct url to the attachment, it'll go the post ...
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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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Custom permalinks structure and custom post types

For all posts, regardless of of the post type I want the URL to be, /read/%post_id%/%postname% and have the custom post types be archives so you can go to /%post_type% and /%post_type%/%category%. ...
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Fix my url problem in wordpress [closed]

I have a website which runs on a bing api. The site is imgpot.com and if you open the site in chrome and open any image on the right side then you will see the URL is broken and it adds %20 between ...
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How to add a custom URL placeholder to author archives?

I am working with a client who has a directory site that allows users to create accounts, then lists of items from the directory. Right now, whenever a user creates an account, she gets a profile URL ...
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Affiliate linking id to payment page

I'm sorry if this has been repeated but I haven't found anything exactly to what I need. I have a website for a client that will be sending links to affiliates. The affiliates will link to our ...
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Passing parameters to a custom page template using clean urls

I am now passing parameters to a custom template in the following format www.example.com/?pageid=12&rid=24&title=this-is-the-title I have created two tables . So I need to fetch data and ...
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Add extra optional text to permalink e.g. “-with-*”

I've been scratching my head about this one for a while. I have tried to add a hook within WP_Rewrite to ensure that we can pick up pages with a similar structure: /products/product1-with-* ...
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Custom taxonomy rewrite using tax name instead of rewrite slug

I Created a custom taxonomy for my projects custom post type. function projects_taxonomy() { $labels = array( 'name' => __('projects Categories'), 'singular_name' => ...
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Redirect URL to an existing page with query string or #! added on

I'm trying to make a photo gallery where the individual photos can be shared on Facebook and Twitter, and when you click the link, the photo that was shared will open in a lightbox automatically. ...
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rewrite get parameter with custom post type

I am trying now for a couple days to solve the following Problem: I have a custom post type called gallery. I need the URL http://example.com/gallery/FOOBAR to be parsed like ...
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External/non-WP rewrite rules

I have a fairly complex wordpress with multiple sub-directories: example.com/sub1/ example.com/sub2/ I'm trying to implement some history/bookmark support, and to do that I need the URLS containing ...
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How can I Rewrite a 'page' URL based on query string parameters?

I have the following page which contains a single post and a number of comments: http://mysite.com/tips When a user posts a comment, I add meta-data to it so I can filter comments by using these ...
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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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Custom Post Type nest under a normal WordPress Page

EDIT Again, nope it's not impossible, just nasty. Solution below. Trying very hard to get this working. Have tried numerous suggestions here on stackexchange/overflow My goals are to simply select ...
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Rewrite Admin URLs

I am creating settings pages for my plugin. Is there some method of making it so that my admin pages have nicer permalinks? (perhaps using wp_rewrite?). For instance, the url for my settings page ...
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How to pass url as a parameter in a add_rewrite_rule

I am building a plugin which relies on passing the url as a GET parameter. Now, I am trying to prettify the links by using rewrite rules but am stuck. What I have now: function ...
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Need to add rewrite rule that adds in additional information about the post to url

A have a post type for venues which have the attributes title, state, and suburb. Currently using the default WordPress permalinks I get the following format: mysite.com/venue/{title} However, I ...
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Access $_POST data after redirect

How can I access $_POST data after a page redirect? I guess there is some way to tell WordPress to pass all $_POST data to the redirected address, like it does with $_GET data, using Rewrite Rules, ...
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Make Author Archive Page URL be a Subdirectory of a Custom Post Type URL

I have a custom post type with a custom URL structure so it works like: http://domain.com/custom-post-type/post1 http://domain.com/custom-post-type/post2 http://domain.com/custom-post-type/post3 etc. ...
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Wordpress Rewrites - How can I pass a variable to Custom Post Type?

I'm looking for a wordpress rewrite that will let me pass a query var. I have a custom post type that produces urls like this: example.com/custom-post-slug/custom-post-title/ my goal is to have ...
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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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Pretty URLs for lost password functionality

I have WP installed in sub-directory and I'd like to have pretty URLs for the lost password functionality. So, something like this, from WP native -> pretty URL: Initial and any errors lost password ...
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“set_front” => false on custom post type breaks wp_list_categories links [closed]

My question is related to this one. I would like my post permalinks to be prefixed by /blog/, but I don't want this prefix to be applied to my custom post type portfolio. In other words, I expect post ...
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Change URL of static page set as homepage

I've been on this one for a while and just cant seem to find the proper way of doing it.... I have a static page called 'digital' set as my homepage. I just want the home url to display: ...
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Two (or more) parallel (sub-)TLDs that are retained when surfing the site / dynamically set the site address?

I am running a site for a German NGO under the domain sub.example.org. Recently, I added sub.example.ch for its Swiss spin-off. Both (sub-)domains are pointing to the same physical location, a WP ...
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Per Page Permalink Structure for Page Post Type

I am trying to Re-Write Page URL's so that they END with .htm I was able to do this using... /* Add .htm extension to Page URL Links */ add_action('init', 'htm_page_permalink', -1); function ...
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Make post slug have priority over category slug

I have a wordpress site where the category base is stripped from the url. Now, when a category has a certain slug that's similar to a post slug, the category is shown. I would like to show the post ...
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How to change pagination base from slash to query form?

Can this function... function custom_pagination_base() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->pagination_base = 'p'; $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); } add_action( 'init', 'custom_pagination_base' ); ...
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Custom Post Types, URL rewrite on multiple CPTs

Re: Custom post types, taxonomies, and permalinks by @TheDeadMechanic The solution above works perfectly, and rewrite is great, but can you advise on how to rewrite for more than one custom post type ...
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Rewrite post type slug only for child theme

I'm in multisite where some blogs share the same parent theme for maintenance reasons. All my cpts come from that parent theme, but I would really like that, for one of the blogs, it had an URL mask. ...
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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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add_rewrite_rule and template redirect not working

I have a strange problem , I have the following pairs : add_rewrite_rule('^questions/ask/?','index.php?pagename=ask','top'); if(is_page('ask')){ $tname = 'add-question.php'; ...
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Using the Rewrite API to Construct a RESTful URL

I'm trying to generate rewrite rules for a RESTful API. I just want to see if there is a better way to make this work than having to write out every possible rewrite combination. Ok so I have 4 ...
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Prevent Wordpress from automatically correcting URLs

I notice that if I type in http://www.example.com/pag I can land on an existing page that has a name like http://www.example.com/page_five. I don't know exactly what causes this, but I want to know if ...
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Custom post type and custom taxonomy archive inaccessible

I've created some custom post type let say: post_type_1 post_type_2 Those post types are related to each other, every post_type_1 has parent of many post_type_2. Then I created a custom taxonomy ...

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