Though I don’t believe this one is part of WordPress core, variables like %category% are used as a placeholder and replaced dynamically at run time with another value. (think of it as a template variable)
In the case of %category%, it’s used to generate permalinks at runtime by replacing %category% with the actual category name based on the category id.
So that allows WordPress to go from:
http://example.com/?cat=17
to
http://localhost/test-category/
by internally replacing %category% with “test-category” when the category id is 17. (in my case)
Not sure I explained it very well. Just think of them as template variables that get replaced with data dynamically at runtime.
Thank you, I know what they are, but I need to know what that format is called. Or what the link itself is called.
Thank you
In WordPress, they’re called (and used as) Structure Tags.
