Hi to the community, is it possible to change the default username slug to nickname if is available? By default the url is something like: http://domain.tld/author/(admin) , is it possible to rewrite and change to http://domain.tld/author/(nickname) so if a user change his nickname from the profile page the slug it will change also to the … Read more
is it possible to regenerate the slugs programmatically after changing the titles of the post? Numerous post titles were updated and the slug was not updated with the title so I need to regenerate all these slugs. 5 Yes, it is possible. Sample code, has to be tested and refined: // get all posts $posts … Read more
Simple question. When pagination is activated, the URL changes to “site.com/page/2”. For my site, this should be “site.com/paggetto/2”. How can I change that rewrite rule? I also want to change “author” and other variables. 4 For some sites in German I use the following plugin to translate page to seite (the German word for page): … Read more
When I change a slug from post-a to post-b, will WordPress create a redirect from /post-a to /post-b, like HTTP 301 or something similar? If not, is there a plugin for that? 2 I just went and tested this (WP 3.3.1), the wordpress core will automatically do a redirect if you change the post slug, … Read more
in my theme I want to define a series of custom post types and custom taxonomies, each one having its own customized slug; the base language of my theme is english, therefore the slugs will be in English language for example while defining the slug of custom post type “product” args: ‘rewrite’ => array( ‘slug’ … Read more
I’m wondering how can I find plugins’ slug (slug = internal name used by WordPress to do plugin updates and to determine which plugins are currently active)? It is usually plugin’s folder name but if a plugin doesn’t have a folder, it is its file name (like hello.php). Are there any other exceptions? Do lowercase … Read more
Is there a page somewhere that details exactly how WordPress generates slugs for URLs? I’m writing a script that needs to generate URL slugs identical to the ones WordPress generates. 5 As per @SinisterBeard’s very valid comment to the question already a couple of years back now, this answer has long been outdated and the … Read more
I want to generate slug for some strings without going through WordPress slug generation flow. Therefore, I want to know which functions it calls to get a neat slug. I tried sanitize_title() but it leaves %c2 %a0 in result. 4 You are almost there. The function you need is sanitize_title_with_dashes( $title )
Is it possible to redeclare/change the slug of a plugin’s existing custom post type (without simply editing the plugin)? That is, if Plugin X creates a custom post type with the slug /uncookedtoast/, is it possible to add a filter to functions.php (or something similar) that changes the slug to /bread/? 3 Yes, this is … Read more
If I know a taxonomy term slug, how can I get that term’s name? 3 The function you are looking for is get_term_by. You would use it as such: <?php $term = get_term_by(‘slug’, ‘my-term-slug’, ‘category’); $name = $term->name; ?> This results in $term being an object containing the following: term_id name slug term_group term_taxonomy_id taxonomy … Read more
