First, you don’t need to have two actions called during init, they can both be done under the same action function — so move the register CPT and taxonomy to a single function (or call separate functions from the main one) — no need to have two init actions. You should also be registering the … Read more
You are trying to match 7-number-cities-starting-with-pa URL to ^([^/]*)-letter-words-starting-with- pattern in second rule. These rules should work: add_action( ‘init’ , ‘se336474_rewrite_rules’, 5 ); add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘se336474_query_vars’ ); function se336474_rewrite_rules() { // single pattern for URLs: // site.com/cities-starting-with-pa/ => start_letter=”pa” // site.com/7-cities-starting-with-pi/ => start_letter=”pi”, length=7 add_rewrite_rule( ‘^(?:([0-9]+)-)?cities-starting-with-([^/]*)/?$’, ‘index.php?page_id=340&start_letter=$matches[2]&length=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); // // OR for URLs: // … Read more
Problem with rules occurs, because rule for a given projecttype is added when you visit relevant URL. Every time you visit one of projects/{projectstype}/ addresses and flush rewrite rules, they are deleted and only one rule (only for current project type) is saved/created. You can add your code to request filter hook, then there is … Read more
Change custom rewrite rule when permalink is updated/changed
Literally found the answer 10 minutes after posting this question and spending a couple of hours on it before asking. Simply hook your function to post_link! 🤦 public function __construct() { add_action(‘post_link’, [$this, ‘post_links’], 10, 2); } public function post_links($link, $post) { if ($post->post_type === ‘post’) { return site_url(‘slug/’. $post->post_name .’-‘. $post->ID); } else { … Read more
The reason the rewrite rules wont work is because you’ll find that if you look at your .htaccess file, WordPress doesn’t actually load if the file that is being requested is present on-disk. So if they try to access an image file, because it’s there, on disk, WordPress isn’t loaded and so the rewrite rules … Read more
Redirect page to homepage, keeping URL
You need to update below line at where you have register a custom post type using register_post_type function. ‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘teachers/%cat%’) To change permalink dynamically of post type you have to add below code in functions.php file : function change_link( $post_link, $id = 0 ) { $post = get_post( $id ); if ( … Read more
Ugly URLs when there’s pagination
Ok, you need to add the id param to the list of public query variables : add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘query_vars’); function query_vars($public_query_vars) { $public_query_vars[] = ‘id’; return $public_query_vars; } Thanks to this plugin for the help : https://wordpress.org/plugins/monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer/#reviews