Change the slug of post type using custom code

There is a function called wp_unique_post_slug which is called whenever you save a post. This function contains a filter of the same name that you can use to modify the slug, depending on, for instance, the post type. This example will prepend the slug with the post type, so you can see from the slug … Read more

How do I disable the changing of the permalink for published posts (for non-admin)?

You could do something like the following, this should go in your Child Theme’s functions.php or if not using a Child Theme then add to a custom plugin: function hide_permalink_metabox( $is_post_edit_page ) { if ( !current_user_can(‘update_core’) ) { // allows Admins to edit the permalink echo ‘<style> div#edit-slug-box {display:none!important;} </style>’; } You may need to … Read more

How does WordPress manage to differentiate between post and page URLs without a distinct base, and how can I replicate this functionality?

I dont know how I missed out on that while looking for aproaches, but I have a working solution now based on this answer. I modified it to check for slashes in $query->request, if there is none I first look for my custom post type (get_posts() with’slug’ => $query->request). If no post is found I … Read more

How do I get the URL section to show use a different domain in the WordPress Admin?

You can use the post_link filter to do this. Example: function modify_post_link( $url, $post, $leavename=false ) { if ( $post->post_type == ‘post’ ) { $url = str_replace(home_url(), ‘https://preview.domain.com’, $url); } return $url; } add_filter( ‘post_link’, ‘modify_post_link’, 10, 3 ); In fact, with this you don’t even need your previous filter for get_sample_permalink.

WP_PLUGIN_URL equivalent

WordPress is expecting http, but you’re visiting with https which is causing the mixed content error. Setting your site and address URLs to use https should solve your problem. If you can’t use https in the admin, then you’ll need to try ways to tell WordPress to use https only on the frontend. Try something … Read more

Link from page to category posts

Instead of hard-coding the pages, categories and sidebars in your template file(s) you could consider registering a custom metabox to store the category relation (i.e. the category term ID) in the page post meta. This way you could make the sidebar handling dynamic. The first step would be to register, render and handle the saving … Read more