I'm trying to have custom variables in my URL for Wordpress site. I have read up as much as I could find on the subject and so far have the following in my functions page:
function add_query_vars($aVars) {
$aVars[] = "mrdrct";
return $aVars;
}
// hook add_query_vars function into query_vars
add_filter('query_vars', 'add_query_vars');
And the following on my header page:
if(isset($wp_query->query_vars['mrdrct'])) {
$mVar = $wp_query->query_vars['mrdrct'];
echo "variable is $mVar <br />";
}
Just to test out if things are being passed correctly and they are. However, when I use a link with the url variable in it - say www.mydomain.com/?mrdrct=myVarable - I am not directed to my homepage of my Wordpress site which is set to a static page with a template on it - I am instead directed to a page with my latest posts on it. I cannot figure out why this is happening - any ideas? Hopefully I've explained this well enough.
Thanks.
When WP sees a query string (? after the URL) it will attempt to display matching posts using it's rewrite rules. If no posts match it will show a 404 error - I would guess you do not have a 404.php file, so WP is showing the default which is index.php (see the Wordpress Template Hierarchy for more details on that).
I'm not 100% sure what you want to achieve, but I'd suggest that you need to look at changing the query when $wp_query->query_vars['mrdrct'] is set. See the WP Codex for query_posts() for a good place to start, if you are not already familier with it.
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I want to do a URL rewrite in the WordPress home page
I want to change my URL http://mysite.loc/?pays=senegal to look like http://mysite.loc/senegal.
The problem is that I am on the WordPress home page, so it will be confused with the URL of another page like http://transfert.loc/page-example.
I have already tried several optins but am completely blocked.
Here is my code example:
public function rewrite_urls(){
add_rewrite_tag( '%pays%','([^&]+)' );
add_rewrite_rule(
'([^/]+)',
'index.php?pays=$matches[1]',
'top'
);
}
Can someone help me please!
Thanks
Two problems I see- rewrite rules need to set query vars that will result in a successful main query. Setting just a custom var like slide doesn't parse to anything WordPress can load. Additionally, slide needs to be added to the recognized query vars for it to get parsed within a rule.
So, what would a rule look like that would load the front page posts in the main query? That's a good question- the posts page is a special case, the absence of any other query vars. I haven't found a way to do that with a rule, though it may exist.
An easier way to do this is with a rewrite endpoint:
function wpd_endpoint(){
add_rewrite_endpoint( 'page-example', EP_ROOT );
}
add_action( 'init', 'wpd_endpoint' );
Keep in mind that if you have code accessing values via $_GET, this still won't work, because WordPress doesn't put query vars there when rules are parsed. You can change the code to use get_query_var, or just assign it before the code tries to access it:
$_GET['page-example'] = get_query_var('page-example');
I need to create a site that will allow for a unique user-identifying number to go in be appended to the URL.
So for instance
test.com/12345/about/
will load the page with slug 'about' (not redirect to it).
I have tried the following:
function custom_rewrite_basic() {
add_rewrite_rule('^([0-9]+)/', '/$matches[1]', 'bottom');
}
add_action('init', 'custom_rewrite_basic');
But it does not work, any prefix to the URL redirects the page with or without the block of code above.
So in my tests
test.com/23423423/about will re-direct to test.com/about which is not what I want.
Is what I am trying to achieve possible? If so, could anyone offer advice as to how I would best go about implementing it?
Here's my issue. My company needs a vendor database added to our wordpress website. None of the existing plugins will even come close to what we need, and we already have a mysql database with all of our information, so we need to create a plugin or something to do what we need.
These urls need to be direct-accessible and have SEF urls. So, for example:
mysite.com/vendors/
mysite.com/vendors/pipe-manufacturers/
mysite.com/vendor/bobs-pipes/
And, the custom content needs to appear inside the wordpress template.
There are really 2 options:
1) Find a way to write our application outside of wordpress, but find a way to bootstrap wordpress to show the header, footer, and sidebar.
2) Run the app from inside wordpress.
So I went for option #2. I created a new template file named "vendor.php", and began working. I added this code to my functions.php of my theme:
add_filter( 'template_include', 'xyz_template_check' );
function xyz_template_check() {
global $template;
$rqst = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
$ra = split("/", $rqst);
if ($ra[1] == "vendors") {
$template_file = get_stylesheet_directory() . '/vendors.php';
return $template_file;
}
return $template;
}
So what the above code does, if it sees the word "vendors" as the first part of the url after the site name, it sends you to vendor.php. This works PERFECTLY....
except...
Wordpress believes that the page is not found. It returns a 404 header, and NOT FOUND into the page title and breadcrumb.
Adding a PAGE called "Vendor Database" with the permalink "/vendors/" fixes the main page. But there will be literally hundreds of vendors and different categories. I cant be creating a custom page for each one. This needs to be dynamic.
So, how do I make wordpress give a 200, and supply an acceptable page title, breadcrumb, etc.
Don't even get me started on the danged wp_title filter. This did NOT work as documented. Although, it just occurred to me that this might be an issue with Wordpress SEO (the wp_title filter issue).
Anyone got an idea on this?
Ok got this. The solution was to use the rewrite api, as mentioned above, to look for the pattern /vendors/, letting it know that it was a valid URL. Coupled with my existing template override, this is what I needed.
I have used this code in my themes function.php file, to pass custom argument to a page in wordpress but it is not working. I am getting 404 page not found. What am I doing wrong?
function photo_details_vars()
{
add_rewrite_rule('^photo-details/([^/]*)/?','index.php?p=20&id=$matches[1]','top');
}
add_action('init', 'photo_details_vars');
I am new to wordpress. I found this idea from here - http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule please be nice and direct me to a solve.
Additionally how can I catch this url variables value from the template file of page no. 20
How should I use add_rewrite_tag() for this rewrite rule?
Have you registered the query variable using add_rewrite_tag()? otherwise WordPress will not recognize the variable.
Additionally how can I catch this url variables value from the template file of page no. 20??
if I understand it correctly, are you asking about this: $_GET['p']?
I've been looking for this all over, and simply cannot find it.
I have a blog that has no titles in its blog posts, but I'd like, for various usability reasons, to have the permalinks use the first few words from entries that do not have titles as the permalink slug.
ie, if the post on sample.com/blog is
Title: (no title)
Content: Ten Easy Ways to Lose Weight
The permalink could be sample.com/blog/ten-easy-ways-to-lose-weight.
Are there any plugins that do this? For the life of me, I cannot find one. (xposted to WP support, but no one is responding)
You could enter in titles, and then not display them in your view template.
I doubt there's anything like this already built for wordpress. To get your blog to do this, you have to write a plugin that does the following:
Generates the slug while checking
for uniqueness should you ever start
more than one entry with the same words
Processes URL requests to recognize slug permalinks and then updates the query step to locate the correct post in the database. This might involve a new db table of slugs (which would also help with the uniqueness issue)
In short, WP is designed to retrieve almost everything by keys, and to support slugs like this you'd have to create a new key type.
btw: if anything is retrieved by IDs (keys), it is technically not a permalink. so, wordpress probably fails in providing true permalinks.
ps: it's not that difficult to write an handler/dispatcher that would parse URL and takle out the unique permalink and then match it to the DB by the string (not by the key!).
something like:
$url=$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
echo 'URL called: ',$url,'<br />';
$dispatchfile=$dispatcher->Dispatch($url);
if ($dispatchfile)
{
echo 'launching ',$dispatchfile,' inclusion<br />';
require($dispatchfile);
}
else
{
echo 'dispatcher failed to find module, will check physical file<br />';
if (file_exists($url)) echo 'dispatcher found physical file<br />';
else echo 'nada, throw 404!';
}
You can get a permalink redirect plugin from
http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/
Works fine with WP2.71
It takes the Title and auto-creates a slug from that so you would have to manually enter the slug you wanted for each page if you have a Blank Title.
You should be able to hack Scott's PHP file (it is one page only) to look up the page code and select a portion of it to use as a slug though.
In addition, I solve incorrect page requests using a .htaccess rewrite file to bring up the index page upon an incorrect page request.
Download a copy of my rewrite file here
https://oulixes.com/htaccess_example.zip
Unzip the txt file and rename as .htaccess and upload into your root directory
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Billy