You can just look at url, load the file and exit. That can be done when WordPress loaded its environment, e.g. on ‘init’. add_action(‘init’, function() { $url_path = trim(parse_url(add_query_arg(array()), PHP_URL_PATH), “https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/”); if ( $url_path === ‘retail’ ) { // load the file if exists $load = locate_template(‘template-retail.php’, true); if ($load) { exit(); // just exit … Read more
There are two ways I’ve discovered doing this: Author Page with a custom rewrite rule A custom template files paired with a rewrite rule The first is more simple to implement, but may not work in all circumstances (one of which I’ll describe soon). Custom Rewrite Rule I found this solution a few days ago … Read more
There are two types of rewrite rules in WordPress: internal rules (stored in the database and parsed by WP::parse_request()), and external rules (stored in .htaccess and parsed by Apache). You can choose either way, depending on how much of WordPress you need in your called file. External Rules: The external rule is the easiest to … Read more
Add this to your theme’s functions.php, or put it in a plugin. add_action( ‘init’, ‘wpse26388_rewrites_init’ ); function wpse26388_rewrites_init(){ add_rewrite_rule( ‘properties/([0-9]+)/?$’, ‘index.php?pagename=properties&property_id=$matches[1]’, ‘top’ ); } add_filter( ‘query_vars’, ‘wpse26388_query_vars’ ); function wpse26388_query_vars( $query_vars ){ $query_vars[] = ‘property_id’; return $query_vars; } This adds a rewrite rule which directs requests to /properties/ with any combination of numbers following to … Read more