You can add your own rewrite rule which will let you tweak the query via URL parameters: add_action( ‘init’, ‘rewrite_photo_url’ ); function rewrite_photo_url() { add_rewrite_rule( ‘photos/([^/]+)/?$’,’index.php?page=photos&photo_id=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } If you need to use a custom variable, i.e. ‘photo_id’, you have to register the variable so it will be recognized by the query: add_filter( ‘query_vars’, … Read more
To accomplish this I always disable the slug when adding the custom post type, and add custom rewrites with the add_rewrite_rule function. See also this codex page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule
add_rewrite_rule() allows you to turn the pretty url into variables. numbers: (\d*) section: /rid/ or /pageid/ slug: ([a-zA-Z0-9-]+ Here is a class to register the rewrite and handle the request if a match has been found. <?php if ( ! class_exists( ‘CPTURLRewrite’ ) ): class CPTURLRewrite { const ENDPOINT_QUERY_NAME = ‘pageid’; const ENDPOINT_QUERY_PARAM = ‘__pageid’; … Read more
You’ll find this post by Joost De Valk on changing WordPress permalinks to only include /%postname% very helpful. How many posts you have doesn’t matter anymore if you are using the latest version of WordPress (at least > v3.3.1). I believe your permalink structure initially was — this /blog/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ — and now, you are planning … Read more
10up engineering best practices as a great example on how to achieve that. You basically add a new rewrite tag and a new rewrite rule and then using the template_redirect action you return your custom action. Here is the code: add_action( ‘init’, function() { add_rewrite_tag( ‘%model%’, ‘([^/]+)’ ); add_rewrite_rule( ‘cars/([^/]+)/?’, ‘index.php?model=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } ); … Read more
To be added on init: To register your custom variable (‘id’ in the question) add_rewrite_tag(‘%mycustomvar%’,'([^&]+)’); To create a re-write rule: add_rewrite_rule(‘^product/([0-9]{1,})/?’,’index.php?p=4&mycustomvar=$matches[1]’,’top’) 4 is the id of the ‘product’ page. You will need to flush rewrite rules once after adding these (go to Permalink settings page) You can get the value of mycustomvar: get_query_var( ‘mycustomvar’ ). … Read more
What I understand from the above is you have .htaccess file and also correct code written in to the same file but still getting 404 issue. Let me tell you why. Your server not allowing .htaccess file to read or override permission. So how can you give this permission? Open your Apache httpd.conf file serch … Read more
Hi @daxitude: Let me first suggest you reconsider. If you don’t have individual FAQ pages for each FAQ: You reduce your surface are for search engine optimization and reduce the potential traffic that you might get, and You make it impossible for someone to share a specific FAQ with a friend over email and/or share … Read more
Yes, any of those are possible and configurable under Settings > Permalinks. Have a look at the Permalinks page for other possibilities. One thing to note though, it’s suggested to add a number at the beginning of your permalinks to reduce the number of rewrite rules WordPress has to generate to resolve all of your … Read more
To answer you question as a apache URL layout configuration via mod_rewrite (the apache module that handles URL rewriting), this could be helpful: RewriteRule ^admin/(.*)$ /wp-admin/$1 [QSA,L] (untested configuration directive, check the docs in case this does errors) This will basically translate any request to /admin/… into /wp-admin/… . If that’s the only thing you … Read more