Title: Custom URL Rewrites
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom URL Rewrites

 *  [toocan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toocan/)
 * (@toocan)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-url-rewrites/)
 * I have links in my site that pass queries to pages that query from an external
   database. This works fine e.g.
 * [http://www.mysite.com/catalog/?tl=flooring](http://www.mysite.com/catalog/?tl=flooring)
 * however i want to rewrite this url to appear as
 * [http://www.mysite.com/catalog/flooring](http://www.mysite.com/catalog/flooring)
 * Ive tried modifying the rewrite rules in wordpress but it always displays the
   index page
    [code] add_filter('rewrite_rules_array','wp_insertMyRewriteRules');
   add_filter('query_vars','wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars'); add_filter('init','flushRules');
 * // Remember to flush_rules() when adding rules
    function flushRules(){ global
   $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->flush_rules(); }
 * // Adding a new rule
    function wp_insertMyRewriteRules($rules) { $newrules = 
   array(); $newrules['(catalog)/([a-zA-Z0-9 ]+)$'] = '/catalog/?tl=$matches[2]';
   return $newrules + $rules; }
 * // Adding the id var so that WP recognizes it
    function wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars(
   $vars) { array_push($vars, 'id'); return $vars; } [/code]

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 *  Thread Starter [toocan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toocan/)
 * (@toocan)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-url-rewrites/#post-1593306)
 * anyone any suggestions?

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