Custom URL scheme - paramters on custom post type

Question

I have a custom post type set up as Event. Within this post type I have various bit's of content / custom meta which will be used on two or three different pages.

I was wondering lets say I had my custom post type url as

http://www.mysite.com/my-custom-post-title/

and on that page I had 3 links that when clicked would load the relevant content i.e.

http://www.mysite.com/my-custom-post-title/faqs/

http://www.mysite.com/my-custom-post-title/directions/

I could achieve what I want with query string parameters on the initial URL but was wondering if I could use pretty URL's rather than have http://www.mysite.com/my-custom-post-title/?subconten=faqs

I know you can do your own rewrites I am just not sure how best to approach it.

Update:

So assuming I have the following URL:

http://www.mysite.com/events/my-custom-post-title/info/directions/

I have added the following action

add_action('init','custom_rewrites'); function custom_rewrites() { global $wp,$wp_rewrite,$wp_query; $wp->add_query_var('content_filter'); $wp_rewrite->add_rule('events/([^/]+)/info/([^/]+)/', 'index.php?post_type=portfolio&name=$matches[1]&content_filter=$matches[2]', 'top'); $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(false);
// print_r( $wp_rewrite ); }

Still nothing - I have found that if I dump query vars to the screen on the 404 page "direction" returns as attachment. Anyone have an idea how I can get this working?

Steve

Answer 1

Try rewrite endpoints:

function wpse_143634_endpoint() {
    add_rewrite_endpoint( 'info', EP_PERMALINK );
}

add_action( 'init', 'wpse_143634_endpoint' );

Now you'll find you can visit any post and tack on info/whatever to the URL - WordPress will still load the post, except now you'll have get_query_var( 'info' ) == 'whatever'.

Further reading: https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2012/06/07/rewrite-endpoints-api/