As new user to wordpress I’m finding that the preset templates structure a little restricting coming from the flexibility of other template routed CMS I’ve worked with. Saying this, I know there are plenty of workarounds and I’m now currently in the process of trying to establish them. — One of the main hurdles I’m … Read more
I have a custom made Twitter stream on my site. I want to have a permalink for each tweet which would go to a page which would display only the tweet – no other content – surrounded by my custom theme. Ideally I would get WordPress to display a Page Template on a certain url … Read more
Is there an equivalent to ‘rake routes’ in php/wordpress that would spit out all the available wordpress url paths available? 1 Answer 1 var_dump( $GLOBALS[‘wp_rewrite’] ); this is as close as you’ll get. Anyway, there’re plugins like the “MonkeyMan Rewrite Analyzer” and toschos T5 Rewrite plugins that will allow you other nice things too.
Automattic is building a React.js based theme called Picard. All the JS code is in picard.js, which you can see a reference to below. Although WordPress doesn’t have a “router” per se (as explained here), React.js does and it is being used in this application to change the URL when a post is displayed. My … Read more
Currently I am trying to add a page as a child in my custom post section. The parent pages in my custom posts works correctly, I’ve set a template file for them as singe-custom_post_name.php. All good. Now I have added support to create child pages, I am able to create those pages in my custom … Read more
I have a number of custom of post types – i.e. ‘windows’, ‘doors’, ‘garages’ and I want to load a custom template (special.php) whenever my wordpress site has a url that looks like this: www.mysite.com/windows/ www.mysite.com/doors/ www.mysite.com/garages/ I don’t want to use pages, as it is not appropriate in this case (I have given a … Read more
I’ve been playing around with a lot of custom post types lately and I am pretty anal about my URL structure / routing. An issue I ran in to a with a site that I just developed was this: I had many custom post types, for example: videos The URL structure to ‘view’ the video … Read more
I’m working on a really odd site which has a couple of Magento installs next to a WordPress install. the folder structure looks like this: /shop (magento) /shop-world (magento) /wp .htaccess I just installed Yoast on the WordPress install and the first thing it did was edit the WordPress .htaccess settings without creating a backup. … Read more
For some posts, I see 404 page, even though posts exist, where is the place in WP where using permalink is decided what object needs to rendered? Thanks! 1 Answer 1 Jan Fabry wrote a very useful plugin that I think it would be helpful for you to analyze your rewrite rules.
I am making a plugin that needs a page that can be accessed from the outside, pretty much like an API, and have the url like so, http://xxxxx/custom_method?parameter=xxxxx&something=xxxx is there a clean way to do this? Thanks in advance. 1 Answer 1 The WordPress Way of doing it is using query_vars so first you add … Read more
