Make sure that the page template is applied to the correct page and you are accessing the correct URL and then go to the Settings > Permalink and save permalinks one or two times. That should clear the older rewrite rules and make the new page template work instead of sending you to the 404 … Read more
I think the issue may be that you think query_vars can pick up the query string arguments from a URL, but you don’t need to do it that way. That’s primarily used if you’re needing to get this into the WP Query (which isn’t what you’re doing here). It’s much easier to simply check for … Read more
It’s not understandable for me, but the second definition works now. No idea, why it didn’t work before, but I guess, somewhere I made a small mistake. Sorry, for my useless post 😉
Add additional URL variations for a Post
get_query_var() gets variables from the main instance of WP_Query. It’s the equivalent of running global $wp_query; $wp_query->get( ‘posts_per_page’ ); It is not directly related to $_GET in any way. However, WordPress has a list of ‘public’ query variables that will be applied to the main query if they are passed as URL parameters. This is … Read more
Inside get_posts() of WP_Query class, you will see this code block. /* * Ensure that ‘taxonomy’, ‘term’, ‘term_id’, ‘cat’, and * ‘category_name’ vars are set for backward compatibility. */ if ( ! empty( $this->tax_query->queried_terms ) ) { /* * Set ‘taxonomy’, ‘term’, and ‘term_id’ to the * first taxonomy other than ‘post_tag’ or ‘category’. */ … Read more
First, adding a rewrite tag and a query var is redundant, adding the tag adds the query var. Second, $matches corresponds to each regex pattern you have in your rule, so it should be $matches[1] and $matches[2], not 2 and 4. Last, for a single member, you can just set the member query var. add_rewrite_rule( … Read more
Nothing in $_GET will be set for internal rewrite rules, that’s not how they work. Look in the query vars for idx-action– either get_query_var(‘idx-action’) or $wp_query->query_vars[‘idx-action’].
Passing query variables to a custom page template
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