Title: Adding new rules through code Last modified: March 4, 2020 --- # Adding new rules through code * Resolved [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/) * Hi John, * I am the developer of Media File Renamer (among other plugins). Many of my users are using Redirection (and I am redirecting many of them to your plugin, in fact,: p), but it’s understandable that they would prefer not to have to export and import the list of redirections every time. * Is there a function I could call to add new redirections, directly? Also, do you have a function to check if a redirection already exists, to avoid duplicates? * Thanks a lot 🙂 Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Fanaticweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fanaticweb/) * (@fanaticweb) * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12505582) * Looking forward to this one. * Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * (@johnny5) * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12506120) * There are various ways described here, with the REST API probably being the most suitable. * [https://redirection.me/developer/](https://redirection.me/developer/) * Thread Starter [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564135) * Thanks, [@johnny5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/). Just to confirm; that doesn’t work with static files, right? I mean, with files which are in uploads folder for example? * Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * (@johnny5) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564194) * Redirecting a static file depends on the server setup. Some servers are configured to bypass PHP when serving a static file, even if that files doesn’t exist. * More details here: [https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/](https://redirection.me/support/problems/url-not-redirecting/) * Thread Starter [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564242) * Okay, I guess I will check this with our users 🙂 However, in my experience, static files are never processed through WordPress. It would impact performances a lot and would skip all the specific caching related to them. The only way would be to actually handle those redirections in the .htaccess. * Thinking about that, a while ago, I created this plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-usage/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/media-usage/). It forces the images to go through WordPress. That way, I was keeping stats about their usage and the goal was to find out the useless ones. Unfortunately, the impact on performances was too big. * Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * (@johnny5) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564252) * Sure, but what I meant is that some sites are (poorly) configured to try and serve a static file directly even if it doesn’t exist. This results in a server 404 page, rather than checking if the file exists and if not, allowing the 404 to be served through WordPress. * Thread Starter [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564273) * Indeed, that is definitely the best way to go, but in fact, how to set this up? I only see this possible through some config at the Apache or Nginx level, or maybe there is a rule we could do in the .htaccess? Sorry, maybe it’s part of your FAQ already, but I thought I’d ask 🙂 * Plugin Author [John Godley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny5/) * (@johnny5) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564292) * For Apache you can use `RewriteCond` with the `-f` flag. There’s a similar rule for Nginx: * [https://serverfault.com/questions/122315/nginx-rewrite-url-only-if-file-exists](https://serverfault.com/questions/122315/nginx-rewrite-url-only-if-file-exists) * Thread Starter [Jordy Meow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tigroumeow/) * (@tigroumeow) * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-rules-through-code/#post-12564359) * Indeed, that’s perfect, thanks 🙂 That will be helpful for those guys wanting to renamed files. 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