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
There are two types of rewrite rules in WordPress: internal rules (stored in the database and parsed by WP::parse_request()), and external rules (stored in .htaccess and parsed by Apache). You can choose either way, depending on how much of WordPress you need in your called file. External Rules: The external rule is the easiest to … Read more
Add this to your theme’s functions.php, or put it in a plugin. add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse26388_rewrites_init’ ); function wpse26388_rewrites_init(){ add_rewrite_rule( ‘properties/([0-9]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?pagename=properties&property_id=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘wpse26388_query_vars’ ); function wpse26388_query_vars( $query_vars ){ $query_vars[] = ‘property_id’; return $query_vars; } This adds a rewrite rule which directs requests to /properties/ with any combination of numbers following to … Read more