I don’t have the reputation to comment so I’m sure this may be dumped if not totally complete/accurate; but, doesn’t WP work in a way that it goes through the core’s index.php file using rewrites and such. This being the case, if you don’t specify a specific file that you are accessing, you aren’t really … Read more
The best place to flush rewrite rules is on plugin activation/deactivation. function myplugin_activate() { // register taxonomies/post types here flush_rewrite_rules(); } register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘myplugin_activate’ ); function myplugin_deactivate() { flush_rewrite_rules(); } register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__, ‘myplugin_deactivate’ ); See the codex article Apologies in advance, I didn’t make it all the way through your question, so this is a … Read more
A basic rule that would work for your example: function wpd_foo_rewrite_rule() { add_rewrite_rule( ‘^foo/([^/]*)/?’, ‘index.php?pagename=$matches[1]¶m=foo’, ‘top’ ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpd_foo_rewrite_rule’ ); This takes whatever comes after foo/ and sets that as pagename for the query, and then param gets the static value foo. If you need different URL patterns, you’ll need extra rules for … Read more
For some sites in German I use the following plugin to translate page to seite (the German word for page): <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /** * Plugin Name: T5 Page to Seite * Description: Ersetzt <code>/page/</code> durch <code>/seite/</code>. * Author: Fuxia Scholz * License: MIT * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php */ if ( ! … Read more
This should work: ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ => ‘about-us/our-people’), combined with: ‘has_archive’ => false, Make sure to visit the Permalinks settings page in your admin after you made the changes to flush the rewrite rules.
When you visit a frontend page, WordPress will query the database and if your page does not exist in the database, that query is not needed and is just a waste of resources. Luckily, WordPress offers a way to handle frontend requests in a custom way. That is done thanks to the ‘do_parse_request’ filter. Returning … Read more
Note: this is an incomplete answer which will be expanded upon incrementally The only reliable way to flush rewrite rules in multisite, without potentially destroying the permalink structure of the primary and or any other blog context (depending upon how and what you a switching to and from) is to flush rewrite rules in a … Read more
The fundamental difference is: The add_rewrite_rule() adds a particular rule which is interpreted The add_rewrite_tag() adds a placeholder to use in url structures. This placeholder is then used to generate multiple rules. For instance – suppose you’re a travel agent advertising hotels in various countries. You may want a hotel’s url to be like www.example.com/hotels/UK/Balmoral … Read more
Go to your WP-ADMIN–>Settings–>Permalink and use the permalink structure change there, if it generate any .htaccess file copy the content and update your .htaccess file. Or Check if your hosting mod_rewrite is enable by creating a file phpinfo.php with content, <?php phpinfo();?> Upload this file and browse via Browser. So you know which modules are … Read more
Some background on rewrite rules The WP Rewrite system looks complicated, but in fact it’s not that hard to understand how it works. It is used to parse pretty URLs (/designers/) as if they were non-pretty (/index.php?pagename=designers). The basic idea is that you have a list of rewrite rules, regular expressions that can match the … Read more