I recently noticed that WordPress tries to auto-complete a URL when it’s not submitted in its entirety. E.g. I have a post URL that looks like this: http://www.mysite.com/some-post-title If I browse to the following URL: http://www.mysite.com/some-post-ti I can see that the URL is submitted to WordPress but that WordPress is doing a 301 redirect to … Read more
How do I skip wordpress’s 404 handling and redirect all 404 errors for static files to 404.html? I read and it seems its not possible when using permalinks? The objective is to reduce the server load for 404 errors by not loading php. 7 .htaccess skip WordPress 404 error handling for static files. <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> … Read more
Is it possible to redirect users to an admin page if they access another admin page? For example if they a user ever hits “all pages” /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page they would get redirected to “add New page” /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page 3 /** * Redirect admin pages. * * Redirect specific admin page to another specific admin page. * * … Read more
I want to build a plugin that grabs certain url params from the query string to build a new query string for the same page. I’m following the excellent the Professional WordPress Plugin Development book, but I’m not sure which hook to use for this action. Here is my action function: add_action( ‘init’, ‘tccl_redirect’ ); … Read more
WordPress has a feature whereby it will automatically redirect your URLs if it percieves them to be written wrongly. Here is an example: I have a page called my-page If I go to: www.mysite.com/something/my-page/ it will immediately redirect me to www.mysite.com/my-page/ as nothing exists at the first URL. How can I turn this feature off, … Read more
In a Unix shell, if I want to combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream for further manipulation, I can append the following on the end of my command: 2>&1 So, if I want to use head on the output from g++, I can do something like this: g++ lots_of_errors 2>&1 | head so … Read more
I figured I would ask my own question seeing as the duplicate question(s) still haven’t been answered. For some reason after my fresh install of WordPress 4.9.1 on my Ubuntu VPS, enabling my “flexible” SSL issued by Cloudflare, and finally switching my URLs in WordPress (from “https://foo.com” to “https://foo.com”) I can no longer access my … Read more
How to redirect non-logged users requesting for a specific page/URL to another page/URL and display a message like “for members only”. I know its quite easy to code using !is_user_logged_in() function but i don’t know how to code it because i am a newbie to WordPress. Care to tell me the file to put the … Read more
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Is there a way to show a 404 page if the current logged in user does not have the right clearance to view the page? I am looking for a PHP method, something like if( !current_user_can(‘administrator’) ) { show_404(); exit(); } I have thought about using a redirect, but I would like to keep the … Read more
