I’m trying to create some pretty URLs for links querying multiple taxonomies. I’m using the “Taxonomy drill-down” plugin, although the main usage is now integrated @ the core it still has some helpful function for templating 🙂
An example URL querying multiple taxonomies ( working ) would be:
domain.com/?tax1=foo&tax2=bar
My goal is to have links like –
domain.com/tax1/foo/tax2/bar – translating to the above example
tax1/2 = taxonomy name
foo/bar = required term
I stumbled upon Examples of WP Rewrites but i think i suck with those patterns and something like:
$newrules['tax1/(.*)/tax2/(.*)/'] = 'index.php?tax1=$matches[1]&tax2=$matches[2]';
doesn’t seem to work ( that’s just a portion of the whole function based on the WordPress example )
Any ideas? 🙂
(.*) matches everything, so it will “eat up” the extra characters (it is “greedy”). If the URL is /tax1/foo/tax2/bar/, the first (.*) will be foo/tax2/bar/, so nothing is left for the second match.
Instead of (.*) you can use the “non-greedy” version (.+?). This will match as much as possible, but still keep the rest in mind. You can also use the even stricter version ([^/]+): this will match everything up to the next / – but this will not work for nested categories, so /category/fruit/banana/tag/flies/ will not split up in fruit/banana and flies like you might expect.
If you are going to play with the rewrite rules I recommend you to install my Rewrite analyzer plugin. It allows you to see the current rewrite rules and play with URLs to see which rules will match.
