In Settings permalinks select custom structure and in box add
/%postname%/
if you want add category as then
/%category%/%postname%/
You can more information here
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Adding /%category%/%postname%/ to “Settings/Permalinks” Custom Structure will give you a URL like
http://yoursite.com/category/postname
, but I’m not sure how you would add the last bit for the /gameID
Thread Starter
Zardon
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@fishdogfish – Yea, that’s exactly what I am trying to find out. My .htaccess file has only 3 lines in it which confuses me because it should have a lot of rewrite rules in it. It looks like this:
php_value memory_limit 256M
# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress
So I don’t know where to add or edit the rules at. Don’t know what files permalinks has access to.
You probably don’t have any Custom Structures set, so wp uses the default and doesn’t add anything to .htaccess
How were you getting the gameId from the database before? You might be able to use that method then append it to the URL.
Or you could simply change the post SLUG to include the gameID
Example: Post Title:How To Play Modern Warfare 2
SLUG: how-to-play-modern-warfare-2
If you include it in the title the first time you publish the post, the slug will match the title.
If you want a title that doesn’t include the game id, then you can just edit the SLUG later to add the gameID to the URL.
With that in mind…
There’s probably another way, by adding a custom field with the gameID in it as the key, and then appending that key to the URL using a php function, but I haven’t attempted it yet.
Thread Starter
Zardon
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My friend was the one who did the coding. He actually did it manually. He just added that bit of code to the url format so it would make the game url format looks more “individualized”.
This is a piece of the code he made and one of the first instances you see the gameId code used:
<td><a href=http://www.mmocraze.com/?page_id=222&gameId=" . $row['gameId'] . ">" . $row['gameName'] . "</a></td>" .
"<td align=center>" . $row['gameType'] . "</td>" .
"<td align=center>" . $row['gameGenre'] . "</td>" .
"<td align=center>" . $row['gameCost'] . "</td>" .
"<td align=center>" . $row['gameRating'] . "</td>" .
"<td align=center>" . $row['gameCrazeLevel'] . "</td>" .
"</tr>"
So basically….that extra url extension forces the site to connect to the database and return the results it finds to the site and then creates a link for the game that is inside the database adding the ‘&gameId=’ part to the url format followed by the database results it finds (the ID for the game and whatnot).
