How to change URL Custom Page?

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My Page Custom URL: http://abcd.com/watch?name=video-title

How can I change this url to http://abcd.com/watch/video-title

where watch is a custom page?

My functions.php code:

function create_new_url_querystring()
{
    add_rewrite_rule(
        '^watch/([^/]*)$',
        'index.php?page_id=3&name=$matches[1]',
        'top'
    );

}
add_action('init', 'create_new_url_querystring');

1 Answer
1

You’re using the reserved public query variable name as your custom one.

It can e.g. affect the canonical redirect by setting page_id and name for a different page.

Change it to something else to avoid possible name collision, like kenan_video_slug:

add_rewrite_rule(
    '^watch/([^/]*)$',
    'index.php?pagename=watch&kenan_video_slug=$matches[1]',
    'top'
);

Note that your rewrite will override the content pagination for the watch page.

Remember to flush the rewrite rules.

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