Did you ever resolve this, I’m trying to do something similar
Thanks
Yes, but it’s not a nice solution. I didn’t have time to figure out how the permalink functions work. Or I couldn’t figure it out after a week of late nights. I just needed this for one page ID. I changed it in wp-includes/canonical.php. I added one line to ignore the function for my page ID. A better way is to use a custom field if you have multiple pages you want this for:
if ( $do_redirect ) {
//CHR this line will exclude permalink translation for a single page
//Use it to call a page with dynamic page generation code
if ( get_query_var('page_id') == "1137" ) return false;
// CHR end modification for 31 directory
// protect against chained redirects
if ( !redirect_canonical($redirect_url, false) ) {
wp_redirect($redirect_url, 301);
exit();
} else {
// Debug
// die("1: $redirect_url<br />2: " . redirect_canonical( $redirect_url, false ) );
return false;
}
} else {
return $redirect_url;
}
Remember to make a backup copy after the change. The next WordPress upgrade will overwrite this.
Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately I couldn’t do it your way ao after further investigation (ycrta asking on the forum again) my prayers were answered
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalinks-and-getting-the-id-which-file?replies=3
points me to http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Rewrite
What this means is I can have
http://www.domain.com/your-town-is-TOWNNAME/
convert to http://www.domain.com/index.php?pagename=your-town-is&town=TOWNNAME
So I only need to write 1 page (your-town-is) and use some shortcode to GET the town variable and replace [town] with the variable
Perfect solution for me.
Did you figure this out? It will be very helpful if you explain how you did it. I have a similar setup that translate /statelist to index.php?page_id=1137&input1=statelist in my .htaccess file. I then have dynamic code in my template page.php that generates the content.
How do I get rid of the original permalink for page_id=1137?
Thanks
Chris
I did it by creating a new function in functions.php and editing the .htaccess file
for the sake of this lets say that the permalink for your page_id 1137 is STATELIST and input1 is OHIO
The user would click on a link http://www.DOMAIN.com/statelist-ohio/
This goes in functions.php and converts the link into something wordpress can use.
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();
$newrules['(statelist-)(.+?)$'] = 'index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&input1=$matches[2]';
return $newrules + $rules;
}
// Adding the id var so that WP recognizes it
function wp_insertMyRewriteQueryVars($vars)
{
array_push($vars, 'id');
return $vars;
}
and my .htaccess looks like this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteOptions MaxRedirects=10
RewriteBase /SUBFOLDER/
RewriteRule ^statelist-([^/\.]+)/?$ /SUBFOLDER/index.php?pagename=windows-in&town=$1 [QSA,L]
# RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /SUBFOLDER/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
obviously replace SUBFOLDER as necessary for your setup
Now just GET input1 as necessary.
Great thanks! This worked for me.
just wanted to say Thanks for this – it totally works, just what i was looking for, and is are very slick solution
