WordPress runs slugs through its sanitize_title_with_dashes() filter function which replaces dots with dashes. Unfortunately the function doesn’t give you any control over that or any ability to change what characters are stripped or replaced. What we can do however is remove that filter and add our own version of it with a couple of modifications: … Read more
Well, numberposts is not actually a query variable. It’s just turned into posts_per_page in get_posts() before the query is run. posts_per_page is a private query var, which means you can’t run it in the query string. A possible solution would be to register a custom query variable (let’s say ‘latest_mealplan’ and add that variable to … Read more
The main purpose of SEO plugin is to give you more control over SEO-related factors (titles, excerpts, meta tags and so on). It doesn’t do anything magical, just an editor to let you fine-tune beyond native WP capabilities. So necessity equals if and how much of those aspects you are willing to spend time on. … Read more
Hook into ‘404_template’. (Example) Fetch all public custom post types where has_archive is not FALSE. Find the post type’s has_archive string and see if it is part of the current request’s url. Try get_page_by_title() with the last part of the requests. wp_redirect() to the found post’s permalink. exit;.
This is the technique I’m using on a site right now. It involves registering a query var for “template”, and registering an endpoint called /contact, which rewrites internally to ?template=contact. Then you just check for that query variable at the template_redirect hook, and if its present, include the page template you want to load and … Read more
You could try something like this: function custom_rewrite( $wp_rewrite ) { $feed_rules = array( ‘product-category/(.+)/material/(.+)/color/(.+)’ => ‘index.php?product_cat=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1).”&pa_material=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(2).”&pa_color=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(3) “product-category/(.+)/color/(.+)’ => ‘index.php?product_cat=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1).”&pa_color=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(2) “product-category/(.+)/material/(.+)’ => ‘index.php?product_cat=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(1).”&pa_material=”. $wp_rewrite->preg_index(2) ); $wp_rewrite->rules = $feed_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules; } // refresh/flush permalinks in the dashboard if this is changed in any way add_filter( “generate_rewrite_rules’, ‘custom_rewrite’ ); It … Read more
If you are not willing to filter only image uploads, i.e., all uploaded media will reside in the same folder/subdomain, then there’s a simple configuration solution: go to options-media.php set the Store uploads option to wp-content/uploads set the Full URL option to http://uploads.yourdomain.com create a subdomain making the uploads folder be http://uploads.yourdomain.com
Here are some notes. Install Toschos rewrite plugin Install Jan Fabrys rewrite analyzer plugin. Use the Rewrite API Add your rules to top. There’s also the function add_external_rule(), which should be accessible via $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’]->add_external_rule(); All your external rules are accessible via $wp_rewrite->non_wp_rules. Here’re the internals, that show you how the rules get added inside $wp_rewrite->mod_rewrite_rules(): … Read more
What I would advice, and have done myself when making WordPress sites for clients. Create a custom post type that they can’t get access to. You can achieve this by conditionally removing the post type from the admin sidebar. One of the ways to solve that problem is to add a custom capability to the … Read more
Your best option is to register neighborhoods as a custom taxonomy and use that instead of categories. In your theme’s functions.php file, you just need to add: function neighborhoods_init() { // create a new taxonomy register_taxonomy( ‘neighborhoods’, ‘post’, array( ‘label’ => __( ‘Neighborhoods’ ), ‘hierarchical’ => true ) ); } add_action( ‘init’, ‘neighborhoods_init’ ); Next, … Read more