Questions tagged [regex]
Regular expressions (abbreviated regex) are terms that define a search pattern to focus on a specific part of a string for a specific purpose (e.g. to find/replace a word).
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Replace image with its alt text?
I have a WordPress post with lots of inline HTML images.
I want to output my HTML in such a way that the existing:
<p>Here's my cat: <img src="example.jpg" alt="A photo of ...
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Why is this line of code Wrong in every Wordpress .Htaccess security article?
The following line of code (RegEx) is partly wrong in every Wordpress .Htaccess hardening article I've seen. Why is that?
<FilesMatch "^.*(error_log|wp-config\.php|php.ini|\.[hH][tT][aApP].*)$&...
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Adding or replacing image size
I have a lot posts converted from classic editor to block editor and in the process, some image blocks (or all) have missing sizeSlug attribute, which editor interpretes as thumbnail size. However, I ...
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How to combine nearly identical custom rewrite rules for WordPress
I have 22 rewrite rules in my functions.php. I was wondering if it is possible to combine some of the nearly identical rewrite rules.
Combining identical rewrite rules for different PAGES:
'^videos/...
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Redirect loops in Bing holding my sites back
Have been running HTTPS for a while and everything is good. I was looking at the webmaster tools on Bing and it shows some redirect loops going on. I see thousands of them.
I've looked at all the ...
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Standard Regex syntax doesn't work in WordPress rewrite rule
I've run into a regex issue while adding a rewrite rule into a Wordpress plugin. This blog has been helpful and the redirect works correctly after following this: https://brightminded.com/blog/...
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Use Regex Redirection via htsaccess for RSS Feeds WordPress
Can anyone help me to write a 301 redirection code for RSS feeds using Regex in htaccess file?
Below are some reference conditions;
MAIN URL Redirect
https:// www(.)mydomain(.)com/feed TO https:// ...
Myil Raj
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How to cut a section of a URL from a string with a regular expression?
I am pulling a response from an API using PHP to display a list of content on my WordPress website from an external service. The way they have their API set up, I need to create a loop that checks if ...
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Meta query with string NOT ending like pattern
I need to find all posts that do NOT have in a specific meta key values ending with ".mp3". I know that I can use REGEXP for this, but I can't figure out how to do it. My code now returns ...
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Multisite image URLs incorrect in editor
I've been driving myself nuts with this one, so I'm hoping someone might be able to help.
I have a Multisite with the latest WordPress version set to subfolders. The issue I am experiencing is with ...
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Regex for pdf's - Old .asp Site folder structure to new WordPress Media Folder(s)
I am in the process of rebuilding a site in WordPress that was built 20+ years ago on a .asp framework (think Dreamweaver) and am having a bit of an issue creating a RegEx for documents (.pdf, .doc, ...
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Dynamic URL Rewrite for Custom
I have a custom post type called Hotels which I woud like to link to using the below url structure:
/{country}/{state}/{hotel-name}
I am fetching and inserting posts dynamically, so I do not know the ...
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REGEXP_REPLACE in post_contet
So, basically, I want to remove trailing slashes from specific domain urls. For example: https://www.example.com/here/postname/
into https://www.example.com/here/postname
I have 10.4.21-MariaDB which ...
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How to add custom regex validation to WPForms password field
I'm using WPForms Pro and I'd like to add custom requirements to the password field on a form.
I know that the password field has a password strength requirement setting, but I have specific rules I'd ...
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Block internal search queries with pre_get_posts and regex rules
This relates to my previous question: Internal search spam (UPD: I no longer use Ivory Search)
The closest question I found: Block search keywords
As I understood, I need to use pre_get_posts, but I ...
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add_rewrite_rule with optional parameters
Using add_rewrite_rule() to handle things like this for the custom post type "catalogs", page name "cars":
/catalogs/cars/
/catalogs/cars/p1/
/catalogs/cars/p1/p2/
/catalogs/cars/...
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Problem with Wordpress permalinks
We have set our permalinks so that it displays like this:
example.com/iphones/ for categories and
example.com/iphones/iphone-11-Pro for the products.
The problem that the old native URLs of ...
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Register GET REST API route with multiple parameters
I'm trying to register a GET REST API route with multiple parameters with the following code:
register_rest_route( 'myplugin/v1', '/posts/?number=(?P<number>[\d]+)&offset=(?P<offset&...
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htaccess redirect - replace special character
In my previous post, I asked about how to 301 redirect all .com/language/X URLs to .com/members/?members_search=X using htaccess.
Thankfully I got help, and the solution was RewriteRule ^language/(.*)...
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How to redirect Webp files?
I was using all images as webp files for performance, however I've stopped using and deleted them (only .webp files) all from FTP. Now having problems with 404 errors. I would like to redirect all ....
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Issue with htaccess redirection in WP Multisite
My site structure is main site example.com and two subfolders sites /es/ and /en/
example.com redirects => example.com/es/ and example.com/en/ is the English version.
What is wrong?
The following:
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Media Library Cleanup A Thought Exercise
I have a site with roughly 1200 posts. Each post has a featured image and a few placed images in the content. Over the years we have had a bad habit of using the WordPress image editor to crop and ...
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Displaying Post with Custom URL with RewriteRule or add_rewrite_rule
I'm having what I believe is a common issue: I want to display a post with a slug with a custom URL, in my case, this is the format /resources/{state}/{city}/{location}/ which would match a post slug ...
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preg_replace regex problem
I'm trying to alter the content of an email generated by a plugin, removing a lengthy section that starts with <p> NOTE: (the space is actually a tab) and ending with /</a><br /> (...
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ACF - Eliminate unnecessary data and print
In ACF, the_field('battery'); outputs as follows :
Battery : Sony Rechargeable Ni-MH 2200 mAh battery
or
Battery : Energizer AA Rechargeable Batteries 2300 mAh NiMH
How can i achieve this (showing ...
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Adding span tags to post titles using regex
My basic titles are something like
Part One: Part Two
And I'm trying to end up with something like this using the colon as what I find in the regex:
<span class="one-class">Part One:&...
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Rewrite rule regex help required
Hoping you can help with this...
WE have a 'serivces' custom post type that allows a 'service' to have a parent 'service'. Our custom rewrite rule works for top-level services but not child services.
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Remove Custom HTML Posts Using Regex
I want to delete the custom HTML that is in all posts. It is impossible for me to edit one post at a time because there have been many posts that I have published.
I want to delete it using Regex via ...
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preg_replace specific Text to small latter strtolower [closed]
Please i need to replace link with capital letter to small letter using wp function
E.g let every text after /get/ be replace with small letter.
<a href="https://stackexchange.com/get/ASK-Question"...
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search and replace using regex
Hello please I want to search and replace word after /check/ and make it to be permalink sanitized.
i.e
https://example.com/check/Dav,ido Song/ => with https://example.com/dav-ido-song/
https://...
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Regexes allow only [a-z][A-Z][0-9] and -
please I am a novice when it comes to regexes, Using search and replace, how can i allow only a-z, A-Z, 0.9 and - on a link, E.g
https://example.com/dav,ido song/ will be replaced with https://...
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WP_Query Regexp whitespace and end of string
Hello I'm using ACL and I have trouble with REGEXP. I tried many ways but somehow it doesn't work.
The meta-field is a ACL-Textarea.
I need to search after searchword. After that word there may ...
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Need help with regex
I have this definiton to add a query var:
add_filter( 'query_vars', 'add_reg_query_vars', 10, 1 );
function add_reg_query_vars($vars)
{
$vars[] = 'seminar'; //
return $vars;
}
and this ...
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SEO friendly query vars
I have an issue with a PHP form and the query vars it generates to fetch certain posts. An example of a generated URL could look like this:
siteurl/properties/?state=georgia&type=industrial
The ...
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Redirect files in uploads directory if WordPress user not logged in
I would like to redirect all of the following urls if a WordPress user is not logged in (or WordPress cookie is set) using .htaccess.
https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/sample_pdf
https://...
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Regex expression for redirecting image URLs to another folder
I have changed the upload folder to a folder called "images" in the root folder by entering define('UPLOADS', 'images'); inside wp-config.php file. My Media settings had the images organized into ...
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Register Embed Handler for Padlet.com
I'm trying and failing to register an embed code for content from padlet.com (strangely it's supported in WP.com but not WP.org). A URL like
https://padlet.com/cogdogblog/aos9fosbbwk4
should embed ...
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How to get different html tags from the content using regex?
I am trying to get different html tags from a single post and display them as nested accordion. I have quite accomplished. the only problem I have is that. When I try to show all the p tags content ...
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how to remove colon and white space in a string by php
How can to remove colon's and white space's in a string by php.
.e.g: The Godfather: Part II
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How to use a variable as a className inside preg_match_all parameters?
I am using regular expression to get the text inside a single p tag targeting its class. the problem is I want to use a php variable as class name and use a loop to change the class name each time.
$...
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Wordpress Own Rewrite Rules
i am trying to rewrite a URL with the following code in functions.php
add_action('init', function()
{
add_rewrite_rule('/agbz\/(\w*)\/\?page=(\w*)&memberID=([a-z]{1}\d*)&land=(\w*)&...
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Regex with a possible hyphen
I am working on a site for cars.
I wrote a regex which worked, up until the point where brands are separated by a hyphen.
These are 2 examples I want to match:
class-s/ford-shelby-gt350r
class-s/...
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How to add no follow to specific links?
I have some cloaking affiliate links to which I would like to add the attributes of nofollow.
However, I'm looking for a way in coding that will allow me to target links that contain specific string, ...
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Regex with HttAccess
I am trying to use a regex redirect for media, we had them on a cdn but we are moving them back to wordpress.
https://res.cloudinary.com/website/image/upload/v........../website/images/
https://www....
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Regex redirect rule for missing part of the path
i want to have a redirect rule for:
before: /ratgeber/one/two/three/, after: /one/two/three/
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before: /ratgeber/one/two/three/four, after: /one/two/three/four/
So i just only want to redirect to ...
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Remove shortcodes that are different (but same pattern) in each post
I have unused shortcodes in my posts like the following:
[wp-imageflow2 dir=NokiaN868MP176]
[wp-imageflow2 dir=Nokia6303classic97]
[wp-imageflow2 dir=LGOptimus3DCubeSU87026]
How do I remove them ...
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Applying A Category to Existing Posts Where Page Title Matches Regex
I have a whole bunch of posts that I need to add a category to (too many to do via Bulk Actions). They all follow a predictable/consistent post title naming structure that could be matched via regex.
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enqueue script with get_shortcode_regex
I try to optimize a bit and i want to load some shortcodes only if they are found in global $post
Unfortunately its not working, the script is not loaded when i open a page which contains the ...
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Strange behaviour of REGEX in a Wordpress filter (trying to suppress emtpy paragraphs)
I've been trying to add a filter in Wordpress to suppress empty paragraphs. I found a number of alternatives online (here is one of them https://gomakethings.com/remove-empty-paragraphs-added-by-...
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Preg Match All doesn't Allow echo first character for Wordpress Taxonomy Tags
I have been working on a code, that finds particular words from my content and converts them to wordpress Taxonomy Tags. I want to prefix them with a '#' symbol... But somehow it doesn't work
This is ...
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