Make sure mod_rewrite is enabled as Apache module. It’s not needed when plain permalinks are used, but you have the opposite situation. Also, don’t lose any of incoming link juice and redirect with HTTP Status 301 everything and everybody to the HTTPS version of the site. Add to .htaccess file before (or inside) the WordPress … Read more
A query either returns posts or it doesn’t. Whether it’s a non-existent page number, a non-existent category name, a non-existent post name, etc., it’s all the same. The rewrite rules is matched, which populates the query vars, which forms the query. The query is sent to the database, and the database returns some amount of … Read more
m is the built-in query var for year/month, see Reserved Terms for a list of query string vars that you should avoid.
WordPress will always try to redirect to the canonical URL to prevent duplicate content, so you’ll have to disable that mechanism to get another URL to display that page. First, your rewrite rule: add_rewrite_rule(‘^page1’, ‘index.php?pagename=your-page-name’, ‘top’); Then filter redirect_canonical to return false if the requested URL is your 2nd home URL: function my_redir_check( $redirect_url, $requested_url … Read more
I just did a test and it seems like the rewrite rules imply ^ if you do not specify it. In my test I found: rule ‘foo’ matched url ‘foo’ rule ‘^foo’ matched url ‘foo’ rule ‘foo’ did not match url ‘afoo’ rule ‘^foo’ did not much url ‘afoo’ rule ‘.*foo’ matched url ‘afoo’ So … Read more
Go to the Permalink page (in Settings), and choose custom structure, and use something like this: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/00%post_id%
First off, don’t ever do this: add_action(‘init’, ‘flush_rewrite_rules’); Every time WordPress loads, you are going to flush the rewrite rules. You only need to do this once to make sure your rewrite shows up. Second, add_rewrite_tag only takes two arguments, the tag and the regex. If you want to specify a query variable directly, you’ll … Read more
You should probably use the built in rewrite api functions rather than using the generate_rewrite_rules filter. There are some issues with your rewrite regex. You need to start each with a carrot ^, to tell WP to match starting at the beginning of the URL. I’m not really sure what you’re trying to accomplish with … Read more
This is possibly a matter of opinion, but I would say – neither. If you’re simply adding new rules, use add_rewrite_rule hooked to the init action.
I think this does what you’re trying to achieve. Regarding multisite 404s, you have to flush rewrite rules on every site within multisite where you want this rule to get added. A quick method for testing purposes is to visit the permalinks settings page for each site you’re testing. Also note, I removed the .php … Read more