Does WP keep track of a posts url history, providing rewrites/redirects for former urls? Yes it does. If you change a post slug, wordpress 301 redirects the old to the new URL (if your server setup allows it). Any light on how WP handles this would be appreciated. Unfortunately, I’ve never seen this feature properly … Read more
I think the best option is an endpoint. You get all the data as a simple string, so you can decide how it will be parsed, and you don’t have to worry about collisions with other rewrite rules. One thing I learned about endpoints: keep the main work as abstract as possible, fix the glitches … Read more
You can just look at url, load the file and exit. That can be done when WordPress loaded its environment, e.g. on ‘init’. add_action(‘init’, function() { $url_path = trim(parse_url(add_query_arg(array()), PHP_URL_PATH), “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); if ( $url_path === ‘retail’ ) { // load the file if exists $load = locate_template(‘template-retail.php’, true); if ($load) { exit(); // just exit … Read more
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
Go to Settings>Permalinks and add it to the permalink structures
There are two ways I’ve discovered doing this: Author Page with a custom rewrite rule A custom template files paired with a rewrite rule The first is more simple to implement, but may not work in all circumstances (one of which I’ll describe soon). Custom Rewrite Rule I found this solution a few days ago … 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
You can always override the template that will be called with the template_include or a related filter, but this might hide deeper problems with custom archives. As I understand it, you want to use the following structure: /glossary/ should be an archive page for all sumo-glossary-term posts /glossary/[letter]/ should be an archive page for posts … Read more
When you register the custom post type, you have to specify that the rewrite rule shouldn’t be prepended with the existing URL structure. In short, this means that this line in your register_post_type call: ‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘projects’), should turn into this: ‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘projects’,’with_front’ => false), For more info, check out … 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