Welcome to WPSE and developing for WordPress! Many times functionality is placed in custom plugins, so that if you change your theme, the functionality remains. However, if you already have everything built in a custom theme, you may wish to include the code in that theme so that everything is in the same place. If … Read more
How to Programmatically Replace Characters in WooCommerce Product Slugs?
This is not a solution, but this works some of the times. Try changing each and every relevant settings there is. Since we changed the permalink structure to ‘custom permalink’ the issue has been gone. We were hesitant to change the permalink settings at first because that had caused all our global_colours to ‘invalid’. However, … Read more
Can’t Remove Unnecessary Slug
Switch WordPress to non-absolute links? [closed]
Instead of hardcoding the slug, instead store the ID in an option and then use it to call get_permalink(). You can also avoid hardcoding the $baseUrl and rely on a nav menu or button block instead so that it automatically updates. For example, $page_id = …..; // maybe a `get_option` call or something else? Depends … Read more
WordPress pagination error when using ACF CPT rewrite slug & Polylang CPT slug translation
How can I add codes to functions.php in WordPress to allow parentheses in slugs, similar to Wikipedia?
So, I found a solution that seems to work great and as expected: function custom_username_links_modify_links($content) { global $post; $landing_page_id = get_option(‘custom_username_links_landing_page’); $registration_page_id = get_option(‘custom_username_links_registration_page’); if ($post && $post->ID == $landing_page_id) { $url_path = parse_url($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’], PHP_URL_PATH); $url_parts = explode(“https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”, trim($url_path, “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”)); if (count($url_parts) > 1) { $element = $url_parts[1]; $custom_username = get_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), ‘custom_username’, true); if (!empty($custom_username) … Read more
OK, found it. it is possible to have the same slug for a page and a category name. The problem was that someone installed a “redirection” plugin that caused the problems. Lesson learned is to restrict the capabilities of people working on the website, so that they cannot install plugins..