While in the process of implementing a CSP and defining the allowed sources, I was shocked to find the total number of resources ShareThis calls. At the time of writing this, I counted a total of 39 domains and subdomains it uses. Not a big surprise anymore why ShareThis was causing my slow page load … Read more
The easiest way to do this is with the built-in $wp_rewrite global. Something like this should give you a good start: function new_rewrite_rules(){ global $wp_rewrite; $keytag = ‘%user_id%’; $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag($keytag, ‘(.+?)’, ‘user=”); $structure = $wp_rewrite->root . “username-$keytag/”; $rewrite = $wp_rewrite->generate_rewrite_rules($structure); if(!is_array($wp_rewrite->rules)) $wp_rewrite->rules = array(); $wp_rewrite->rules = $rewrite + $wp_rewrite->rules; return $wp_rewrite->rules; } You would then access … Read more
properties_add_rewrite_rules should be hooked to init so it runs on every request. Rules can be flushed at any time- loading the permalinks settings page calls flush_rewrite_rules, and your rules weren’t added on that request, so they disappear.
Properly maintaining an old rewrite structure
There isn’t much “dynamic” about actually creating folder tree and index files in it. What you have right now is completely tangential to your WordPress installation. In a nutshell, if you need to integrate this with WordPress, you have two approaches: Load WordPress core in your code. This can be done with including wp-load.php and … Read more
Remove trailing slash
You could use 2 of WordPress’ built in functions to get the result you’re after. add_rewrite_tag() and add_rewrite_rule() There is an example of how to use these tags to get the result you want about halfway down this page https://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule. Note: remember to flush your rewrite rules.
pagename is for the page post type, if you are trying to pass the slug for the presskit post type, remove post_type and pagename and just set presskit=$matches[1] instead.
ModRewrite not working properly
Have you thought of making post type, taxonomy, terms? If you do so, it will be a lot easier for you to code and get the above urls. If any confusion, let me know.