If your form has been incorporated into WordPress as a page template, which I encourage, then get_permalink(8); // or 12 should do it. If not, then http://example.com/?p=8 and http://example.com/?p=12 should always work. http://example.com/?page_id=8 and http://example.com/?page_id=12 uses the proper parameter for pages but ?p= works fine when I test it.
You may use template redirect action to check if there is parameter set for description and based on that you can show desired template. <?php add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘course_template_redirect’, 1); function course_template_redirect() { global $wp_query; if($wp_query->post_type==’courses’ and $_REQUEST[‘showdesc’]==’1′) { //include your template from your theme folder. for e.g include(‘mytheme/coursetemplate.php’); } } ?>
This is not natively possible, since in your example permalink structure posts are detected by slug alone, and not combination with category. Essentially category info gets simply discarded. If your requirements involve only one (few) of possible endings for URL you might achieve this relatively easy using endpoints, see add_rewrite_endpoint(). However in generic scenario slug … Read more
mod_rewriteis probably not activated on your localhost that why permalink can’t work. Just uncomment this line in apache : #LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Nothing just happens for “no apparent reason”. Some new condition has caused this. Most likely a new plugin or update of an existing plugin. It is possible for a plugin or theme doing something crazy like flushing rewrite rules on every load could wipeout the existing rules. See this ticket for more info: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18450#comment:34 if … Read more
All your inner links use the wwww subdomain instead of the www subdomain. Check your General Settings to see if you added an extra w in your site url. For example: This fails: http://wwww.erogol.com/?p=653 This succeeds: http://www.erogol.com/?p=653
Following your code strictly you’d want … $dl .= ‘<dt><a href=”‘.get_permalink($wp_query->post->ID).'”>’ . $wp_query->post->post_title . ‘</a></dt>’; … but you are using the WP_Query object in a very atypical way. You are sort-of brute forcing your way through the Loop instead of using the methods and template functions built into the core. For example: while ( $query->have_posts() … Read more
You may also want to look into who the owner is of the folders as well as permissions. I’ve just recently completed setting up multiple WP sites on a local Ubuntu server & the majority of issues I ran into were permissions related. WordPress documentation for permissions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
There’s a plugin Custom Permalinks to the rescue. But you have to change the permalink page by page.
Add a rewrite rule and extra query vars to handle incoming requests, direct the rewrite rule to a single page post type, create a custom page template for that page, then do whatever querying you need using the query vars set by your rewrite rule.