htaccess

Custom rewrite rule, url returning 404

I think I figured it out… almost. I needed to use WordPress’ own rewrite engine to define the rewrite rules so it recognizes what I’m doing. So I added this to my WordPress theme’s functions.php: add_action( ‘init’, ‘init_custom_rewrite’ ); function init_custom_rewrite() { add_rewrite_rule( ‘^show/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?’, ‘index.php?page_id=2382&id=$matches[1]&n=$matches[2]’, ‘top’ ); } add_filter(‘query_vars’, ‘my_query_vars’, 10, 1); function my_query_vars($vars) { … Read more

What might be removing my redirects from my htaccess?

Whatever’s inside the “# BEGIN WordPress” and “# END WordPress” lines in your .htaccess file will be re-written by WordPress every time the permalinks are updated… I assume your plugins also use a similar mechanism. So make sure your own rewrites are always outside other people’s blocks.

Redirect old domain with query paramaters

The old domain is: www.example.com/newspage.asp?m=4&y=2015 and I need that URL, as well as that URL with different query paramaters to go to: example.com/news. So, you are also changing the host with this redirect (www subdomain to bare domain)? Otherwise, it just looks like you can ignore the query string. This is relatively trivial to do … Read more

How do I apply friendly URL permalinks to a custom WordPress template?

Add the following code In your main hooks file (maybe in functions.php) add_action(‘init’, ‘my_custom_rewrite_rules’); Then add this function function my_custom_rewrite_rules() { // The rule // Input: archives/publications/countries/kenya // Output: archive-template.php?posttype=publications&taxo=countries&slug=kenya add_rewrite_rule(‘archives/publications/countries/([^/]+)/’, ‘archive-template.php?posttype=publications&taxo=countries&slug=$matches[1]’, ‘top’); // Flush the rules (to activate them) flush_rewrite_rules(); } To learn more about regex and rewrite rules, those links might help https://regexone.com/ … Read more

How to create a redirect in the .htaccess file, with 2 exceptions

Try the following, before the existing WordPress directives: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule !^(abc|abc-def-g)$ / [R,L] This states that for any URL that is not /abc or /abc-def-g and which does not map to a physical file or directory (ie. your static resources, images, CSS, JS, etc.) then redirect to the homepage. The … Read more

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