10up engineering best practices as a great example on how to achieve that. You basically add a new rewrite tag and a new rewrite rule and then using the template_redirect action you return your custom action. Here is the code: add_action( ‘init’, function() { add_rewrite_tag( ‘%model%’, ‘([^/]+)’ ); add_rewrite_rule( ‘cars/([^/]+)/?’, ‘index.php?model=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } ); … Read more
Custom Taxonomy Endpoint Pagination using paginate_links()
You can add an endpoint to your URIs to handle special requests. Here is a basic example as plugin. To understand what’s going on read Christopher Davis‘s fantastic tutorial A (Mostly) Complete Guide to the WordPress Rewrite API. <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: T5 Endpoint Example * Description: Adds a … Read more
I think the best option is an endpoint. You get all the data as a simple string, so you can decide how it will be parsed, and you don’t have to worry about collisions with other rewrite rules. One thing I learned about endpoints: keep the main work as abstract as possible, fix the glitches … Read more
You should put the named parameters of the route regex into an optional capturing group: register_rest_route( ‘api’, ‘/animals(?:/(?P<id>\d+))?’, [ ‘methods’ => WP_REST_Server::READABLE, ‘callback’ => ‘get_animals’, ‘args’ => [ ‘id’ ], ] ); The second parameter is simply a regex, thus you can use normal regex logic to make it more complex
WordPress functions are available only if WordPress is loaded. If you call your style.php directly you cannot use a WordPress function. One simple way to load WordPress for your PHP driven stylesheet is to add an endpoint to WordPress: a custom, reserved URL where you load your template file. To get there you have to: … Read more