Does this method rewrite any URL present in the output (page, post, etc), or only ones internal to a site (permalinks).

For example, if one edited a post to include a URL would that also be a potential candidate for a rewrite, assuming it also matched the grep string.

Perhaps another way of posing the question: Does this run on a near-completed page, or as part of the page assembly?

Thanks.

So, we need to tell WordPress that **anytime it finds a URL matching that structure**, to use the last portion, the category-name, to populate our new “msds_pif_cat” query variable. T

This rule tells WordPress that **anytime it finds a URL** that includes “msds-pif/”, followed by anything other than a forward slash, followed by another (optional) forward slash, to capture the last portion of that URL (the part within the parenthesis), and serve the page found at “index.php?pagename=msds-pif&msds_pif_cat=$matches[1]“.

thanks for your answers.

I have created a rewrite rule based on your code to convert http://207.126.50.142/category/exhibitions/ into a url with variables for past, current, future like so http://207.126.50.142/shows/current/

Problem shows up on the category template i am loading, there are pagination links for each array of exhibition posts, which on load of the resulting /shows/past/page/2 gives 404. If I call up the default wp url for this (/category/exhibitions/page/2) it works. Is there some workaround in defining the new rule which can read the paged variable through the wp default rewrite of that paged variable?

I am working on a project where i have a similar situation. I have successfully managed to create the first and individual pages for each actor.

I have created a custom post type movies and have a page named page-movies.php which shows the list of all movies.

Similarly, I have created a taxonomy Actors and have a page actors.php where i have the list of all the actors and a page taxonomy-actors.php which shows the details for the individual actor.

I access my movies page by mysite.com/movies/ and it shows me the list of movies. When i click on a movie name it opens a page mysite.com/movies/movie-name/ with the description of the movie and the list of actors that acted in it. Whenever i click on any actor name the url is changed to mysite.com/actors/actor-name/ and the page shows the actors details and the list of movies that he has acted in.

Everything fine till here.
Now i have a page filmography.php which shows only the list of movies that the particular actor has acted in but the problem is i cannot make it to appenf to the url.

What i would like to do is the filmography.php page be rendered when i type mysite.com/actors/actor-name/filmography or mysite.com/actors/actor-name/?filmography.php. Currently when i type the above url directly i get the page not found error. Also if anyone can tell me how do i create a link for filmography.php on the actor details page so that when i click on that link i am directed to mysite.com/actors/actor-name/filmography or mysite.com/actors/actor-name/?filmography.php with the desired result.

Can anyone help.

I am a complete novice in php and i tried whatever is explained above but failed. May be i am missing out on soemthing.

Hoping for a quick response. ITS URGENT.

Thanks in advance.

I owe you one.

I mean I am sending a var to a post, using your tehnique I ad a rule, like this:
$aNewRules = array(‘([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$’ => ‘index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&c=$matches[2]‘);

If ?pagename is the name of a page it works brilliant, if however it is the name of post, I get redirected to:

site.tld/post-name/ or whatever permalink structure I set, like site.tld/2010/11/15/post-name/

and the query value is lost. Maybe you know some way around this.

Thanks.

I have a simple need that maybe someone here can help me address. I need to take a URL like this:

mydomain.com/product/prod123

and make it behave like this:

mydomain.com/product?prodnum=prod123

Then on the page mydomain.com/product I need to be able to use the value $prodnum (=prod123) in a few places within the content of the page. For example, if there were a form there to allow someone to ask a question about the product, it could have a hidden field with $prodnum (or however it’s given) so it shows up as “prod123″.

Also there could be a query that uses $prodnum to pull up information about that product and display it on the page.

I don’t want to have a custom template page, just any regular page.

There are several plugins that help manage taxonomies, but I can’t figure out how to make any of them do just this. I don’t need the taxa added to a database; I don’t need tag clouds; I don’t need fancy ways to build associations. I just need to pick off a value from the URL and make it available as a parameter inside a page.

Basically, I need to pass out stuff with URLs on it that people will type in, and I don’t want to have the “?prodid=” part. Peole will find a dozen reasons to screw up anything they can, and basically this data is implied anyway.

Many thanks in advance!
-David

Thanks.