Post URL duplication adds numerical value

Posts have a slug (that’s the last part of the URL), and it must be distinct, even if posts are in different categories. If your only worry is SEO, don’t worry. Google sees the URLs as distinct, and Google is used to dealing with URLs that have a suffix on them, and has no problems … Read more

How do I create a ‘selection’ criteria list’ that will then dictate which posts are generated when the user presses search?

Your terminology is a little off. Search implies providing a search word of phrase and receiving matched when it is found in content. What you describe is commonly called filters or facets (sometimes faceted search). Implementing it would depend on your exact data architecture. You might use custom taxonomies, but really there aren’t details in … Read more

Sort Events by Venue Title – Sort Post set by related post ids

You can use meta__value in orderby e.g. ‘post_type’ => ‘tribe_events’, ‘posts_per_page’ => -1, ‘meta_query’ => array( ‘relation’ => ‘AND’, ‘event_title’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘post.title’, ), ‘event_id’ => array( ‘key’ => ‘EventVenueID’, ), ), ‘orderby’ => ‘event_title’, Not tested but should work, this was introduced in 4.2 of WP – https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/03/30/query-improvements-in-wp-4-2-orderby-and-meta_query/

Post & Category Archives URL structure

The issue with your desired structure (and that categories without base are common request but commonly unreliable) is ambiguity. Each rewrite rule is like a tiny program, explaining WP how to turn URL into query variables. It is very important that WP can reliably distinguish which of the rules should handle particular URL. In plain … Read more