The slug of a CPT can not be dynamic (actually no slug can be) as wordpress needs to know how to parse the URL very early in the handling of the request. You can probably change the behaviour, but you will only end with the same results that slugs have to be constant even when … Read more
OK so after scratching my head for a day, I decided to rewrite the function. After searching for few minutes, I came across this tutorial that outlined the solution for me. It works like a charm. I hope it helps you guys too.
Yes you can use the rewrite parameter when creating your custom post type: register_post_type( ‘example_type’, array( ‘labels’ => array( ‘name’ => “Example-Type”, ‘singular_name’ => “example-type” ), ‘public’ => true, ‘has_archive’ => true, ‘rewrite’ => array(‘slug’ => ‘the-url-you-want’, ) ); } You will need to reset your permalinks for it to take effect as well. EDIT: … Read more
You need to add following two functions in theme functions.php or in a plugin’s php file function func_rewrites_init(){ add_rewrite_rule( ‘programme/(\d+)/(\d+)/?$’, ‘index.php?pagename=programme&pmonth=$matches[1]&pdate=$matches[2]’, ‘top’ ); } add_action(‘init’, ‘func_rewrites_init’); function func_query_vars( $query_vars ){ $query_vars[] = ‘pmonth’; $query_vars[] = ‘pdate’; return $query_vars; } add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘func_query_vars’ ); pagename value in the above code have to be according to template … Read more
I don’t understand why but the regex seemed to be the last issue. It was catching it but even with the post name hardcoded in it didn’t work correctly. This is the final working version. add_filter( ‘post_link’, ‘custom_permalink’, 10, 3 ); add_filter(‘rewrite_rules_array’,’wp_insertMyRewriteRules’); add_filter(‘init’,’flushRules’); function custom_permalink( $permalink, $post, $leavename ) { $category = get_the_category($post->ID); if ( … Read more
pagename assumes the page post type. You need to use the custom post type query var in your rule instead. Presumably you also want to detect that this is a request for en, you can add your own rewrite tag to store that, then add that to the rule: add_action(‘init’, ‘add_my_rule’); function add_my_rule() { add_rewrite_tag(‘%my_language%’, … Read more
I recommend switching to a code editor with PHP syntax highlighting, such as PHPStorm/Sublime/Atom/etc, which would reveal the problem on this line of code, as shown in the highlighting on your question once the code block is formatted: $url=”https://myurl.com/user/‘.$username; The closing quote, is actually an apostrophe ‘ not “. As a result the closing quote … Read more
It’s not clear from your question how important it is that the query string is action and the value test, but if all you need to do is have a /test URL, and be able to tell if it’s the /test URL so that you can process soemthing, then the simplest way is probably to … Read more
Thanks to WebElaine for pointing out the obvious solution! Just created a post in the custom post type and gave it a unique template, thus achieving the desired url.
I do something similar. I have a page (country_tc) that uses a custom page template that either dynamically generates info for requested country, or a series of sub-pages for the country e.g. /country/Egypt (index.php?pagename=country&countrytc=egypt) /country/egypt/safety (index.php?pagename=country&countrytc=egypt/safety) I use page_rewrite_rules for the re-write. I’ve not had time to vet your code, so this is how I’d … Read more