First, year is already a WordPress query var used for date-based archives, you should change that to something unique to prevent possible conflicts. To use your own query vars within rewrite rules, you need to add them to the list of known vars: function wpd_query_vars( $qvars ) { $qvars[] = ‘my_year’; $qvars[] = ‘make’; $qvars[] … Read more
taxonomy term in URL slug won’t forward to the correct term for custom post like it does for default categories/normal posts
I would strongly suggest leaving IIS alone and implement your requirements in WordPress: /** * Remove category base from “newcat” permalink. * * @param string $link * @param object $term * @return string */ function wpse_175424_term_link( $link, $term ) { if ( $term->taxonomy === ‘category’ && $term->slug === ‘newcat’ ) $link = home_url( user_trailingslashit( $term->slug … Read more
In general the pretty permalinks are domain of Rewrite API in WordPress. But they convert the links into query variables for back–end PHP side of it. Hashbang links are domain of JavaScript. It is impossible to say how easy would be to change them, without very specific knowledge of how theme’s JS implements them.
Converting WP Page to use full explicit paths?
I don’t know if you can use pages for your purpose, but as in the comments in wp-includes/post.php line 3701 (in the wp_unique_post_slug function), you can use identical slugs for pages in different trees: /* * Page slugs must be unique within their own trees. Pages are in a separate * namespace than posts so … Read more
It is not possible to directly set a referrer. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14235377/http-referer-and-bookmark You can still track this data by passing a parameter in the url and then listening for that parameter in WordPress. For example, you could set the parameter from_desktop in the url, so your url would look like www.example.com/page-slug/?from_desktop=1. Once you’ve got this going … Read more
add_rewrite Rule
The only way I can see this working is by setting a couple of redirect rules in your .htaccess file. You’d have to manually redirect all your posts (that you want with that permalink structure) and prepend the /awesome URL part in front. Other than the aforementioned solution, which is a hack more than anything, … Read more
Add this to your functions.php file, and note that you’ll need to grab and edit the capabilities for each post type (Post, Page and Attachment) and taxonomy (Category and Post Tag). You should note that there are more capabilities than those listed, but I don’t believe that the need changing. Therefore I advise you to … Read more