This doesn’t work:
add_rewrite_rule('^spor/?','index.php?pagename=search&search_text=spor',top);
It goes to the search page but search_text=spor
is not taking effect. (Like Empty)
When I manually browse from browser:
www.mydomain.com/index.php?pagename=search&search_text=spor
the query works succesfully. What am I missing?
1 Answer
Custom query vars have to be added via the query_vars
filter to be parsed within rules.
function wpd_add_query_vars( $qvars ) {
$qvars[] = 'search_text';
return $qvars;
}
add_filter( 'query_vars', 'wpd_add_query_vars' );
You can then get the value with get_query_var('search_text')
.