Questions tagged [url-rewriting]
Refers to the process whereby an URL is manipulated to create what in WordPress is called a "pretty permalink"
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Can I exclude a single URL from a rewrite plugin?
I am working on an imported .html site that has been using the .html on pages plugin to rewrite the URLs for inbound link purposes. Now I am trying to integrate it with a subdomain blog (domain.com/...
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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 terms(...
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URL rewrite of independent plugin?
I'm currently developing a more complex plugin for WP which can't be hooked up to the WP-API itself (Custom Post Types doesn't fit my requirements). Of course I use the API alot, because the data is ...
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What approach should I take for this URL structure?
For a website I am developing I have to create two pages with listings of courses. The first page is a "Trainings" page while the other page is "Coaching". I would like to use a single custom post ...
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How to display only the parent category in the permalink
How it is possible to display only the parent category of the post. It contains two sub categories and I want to eliminate it.
Example:
myblog.com/parent_category/post_name
This is only what I want.
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Wordpress not respecting template hierarchy (fetches index.php instead of single.php or page.php)
I've encountered a strange error while developing a custom theme.
After finishing editing the template for a custom post type single view, I passed onto working at the template files for pages and I ...
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how to create several url aliases for a page
on the root page of a WordPress site we have a custom page template, that also handles some forms and dynamically changes part of the content.
Something like this:
<form action="" method="post"&...
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wp_list_categories() - current-cat class also inside posts?
I wrote my own function to list all taxonomy terms of a certain taxonomy …
function wr_list_taxonomy($taxonomy, $orderby, $hierarchical) {
$show_count = 0;
$pad_counts = 0;
$title ...
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add_rewrite_rule behaving strangely
I'm customizing another plugin by changing the rewrite rule, from:
add_rewrite_rule('^api/auth/([0-9]+)?/?','index.php?__api=1&uid=$matches[1]','top');
to:
add_rewrite_rule('^api/auth/'...
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Rewrite rule for a query string
I have a taxonomy search form and the link output is
http://localhost/wp/?cityid=16
But i want it to be rewrited as
http://localhost/wp/cityid/16
.htaccess
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule ...
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Using WP Rewrite to rewrite custom urls in this scenario
I have build a plugin where I can output special php pages on a page using shortcode.
The plugin directory consists of the following php pages.
product_info.php
index.php
account.php
login.php
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Multilingual theme: Changing locale based on URL
I'm developing a multilangual theme. I use the __() function for translation, which works just fine.
The main language is English, but the second language is German. For that second language, I'd like ...
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How do I create a dynamic page?
I want to create something similar to what buddypress does with member pages. For eg;
http://www.example.com/members/foo
http://www.example.com/members/bar
etc.
I tried looking up the buddypress ...
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Generated URLs don't reflect accurate URLs.
Evening,
I'm getting some incorrect links generated by my theme.
WordPress Address (URL): http://localhost/newgameplus/wordpress
Site Address (URL): http://localhost/newgameplus
Clicking on ...
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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', '...
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How to create a front end user profile with a friendly permalink
I want to create a public front-end profile page with a friendly url like this format.
mysite.com/user/someusername
Any idea on how can i achieve this? I know it has something to do with rewrite ...
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Is it possible to rewrite URLs in this situation?
I am using a fantastic plugin called Query Multiple Taxonomies which provides a widget to "drill down" by category / tag and other custom taxonomies you may have.
The site is livetonom.com.
The ...
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Including category-base in a post permalink results in 404
I have static front-page and separate page /news/ as the Posts page. I would like to have the single-post URLs like this:
www.example.com/news/categoryname/subcategory/postname/
and for the category ...
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ngnix Url rewrite doesn't work
on my server i have installed magento,which is in my root directory. then I created a sub-folder named blog in my site's server. access the blog url is:
http://example.com/blog http://example.com/...
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Evaluating a external rewrite rule before internal wordpress rewrite rule
I am been plucking out my hairs since last few days trying to solve this problem:
I want to convert my urls from format
http://example.com/prodsearch/category/tag1-tag2-tag3-tag4
to
http://...
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When to use which plugin output method?
I'm a Drupal dev, getting into Wordpress. So far as I can tell there are a few different methods by which a plugin can output content on to a Wordpress site:
Shortcode
Rewrite API
Widget API
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How to create custom URLs for Custom Post Type sub sections?
Not sure how to ask this, because I'm not exactly sure what I'm asking.
I'm looking to use custom URLs (using rewrite rules maybe?) to create 'tabs' for a Custom Post Type. In the past I've used ...
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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 ...
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wp_rewrite not working on third level url
I have the following code :
global $wp;
$wp->add_query_var('akey');
$wp->add_query_var('sort');
$wp->add_query_var('paged');
add_rewrite_rule('^activate/([^/]*...
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IIRF + IIS 6 + Wordpress does not return 404 error
I use IIRF for Wordpress redirects in IIS6, but does not return "Page not found" (404), always redirect to home directory for all missing files.
Permalink Structure:
/%postname%.html
IIRF rewrite:
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Change the "page" slug in pagination
Simple question. When pagination is activated, the URL changes to "site.com/page/2". For my site, this should be "site.com/paggetto/2".
How can I change that rewrite rule? I also want to change "...
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Get url-friendly version of the_title?
How can I get an url-friendly version of the post_title? I´m using anchor links for my posts on an archive page, and for the moment the posts get the post_ID as a hash tag but I would like to get the ...
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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
I ...
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How to seamlessly redirect between different archive and singular slugs?
I have a CPT with slug function (singular) and archive slug functions (plural).
Permalink structure for:
singular is /function/[postname]/
archive is /functions/[page-x/].
(can poke live at ...
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Remove parent slug for child pages
I'm looking for a plugin/custom function that removes the parent slug of a child's page permalink.
Something that automatically changes the permalink for child pages.
Example:
www.blog.com/products/...
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Removing rules from .htaccess
I'm writing a small plugin that needs to write to .htaccess a simple non_wp_rule and i am doing it like this:
function ci_flush_rules()
{
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
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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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custom wordpress rewrite
I am trying custom rewrite for following url...
http://www.domain.com/lp/1
and it would be parsed using
lp.php?p=1
I have tried following...
add_action( 'init', 'aagt_rewrite_add_rewrites' );
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i want to rewrite my custom plugin url
I am Working on wordpress plugin. and i have a form like this
$action_url = WP_PLUGIN_URL .'/demo-url-rewrite/include/test.php';
<form action="<?php echo $action_url; ?>" method="get"...
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add_rewrite_rule and template redirect not working
I have the following pairs:
add_rewrite_rule('^questions/ask/?','index.php?pagename=ask','top');
if(is_page('ask')){
$tname = 'add-question.php';
if(file_exists(TEMPLATEPATH.'/'.$...
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Category URL Management
When you keep the category base ( that is you don't remove it by a plug in) WordPress does allow you to browse to your 2 level deep category in two different ways as the example below would ...
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Permalink rewrite with custom post type and custom taxonomy
I think thats a quick one:
I've got:
Custom post type: Food
Custom taxonomy (Registered to Food): Fruits
Terms in Fruits: Apple, Orange, Cherry
If I type in example.com/food?fruits=Apple,Cherry, I ...
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Rewrite rules for using the same base slug for multiple content types
I'm not sure if this is possible or not, but here is what I'm trying to achieve. I'm using WooCommerce, and I have it setup to prepend a base slug and the product category to my product permalinks. So,...
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Wordpress redirection to get url friendly
I want to get url friendly for pass data to page from other page.
I explain :
I have on i classic wordpress page, url like it : ( example.com/agent/name_agent )
it's url build dynamically. ( ...
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Why wp redirects me to wp-login.php when I visit a rewritten wp-admin URL?
I have this rewrite rule
^dashboard(.*) wp-admin$1 [L]
and wp redirects me to wp-login.php when I try to visit /dashboard (even if I am logged in)
Any idea why this happen, and how I can solve ...
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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 ...
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Custom Post Type URL Rewriting?
I setup a custom post type for my portfolio projects. The main URL for this is located at /projects/
Now I've also setup my blog posts permalink to /articles/*/ for the permalink structure. This ...
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How can i maintain permalink structure and avoid a 404 error when loading external content?
I created a page called Catalog and also a template called page-catalog.php. The url looks like this now:
sitename.com/catalog
So far so good, however i use some custom php stuff to list products ...
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rewrite file to wordpress
I have in my plugin dir a endpoint.php and need to rewrite like this:
http://domain.com/API/endpoint.php
This is the code I've used:
add_rewrite_rule( 'API/endpoint.php', 'myplugin-path/endpoint....
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add_rewrite_rule not loading correct page nor getting variables
I've trying to get a showreel title and video id into an URL that can then be accessed by the page.
i have the two in the same URL and it either doesn't work or only one comes in. Currently the page ...
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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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Slug for custom post type archive
I created a new custom post type 'Projects' and want the archive of all posts of this type to be available at mysite.com/projects. At the moment all project single posts are shown with a slug as ...
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Rewrite ugly URL to clean URL
Im trying to go from:
http://www.example.com/product?level1=value1&level2=value2&level3=value3&level4=value4
To:
http://www.example.com/product/value1/value2/value3/value4
Sometimes ...
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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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Custom Taxonomy Archive URL rewrite
I would like to create an archive page with a list of my custom taxonomies that link to a page that shows posts with that taxonomy relationship.
I registered my taxonomy like this:
register_taxonomy(...
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