Title: GET Variables in WordPress
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# GET Variables in WordPress

 *  Resolved [MNS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mns/)
 * (@mns)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-variables-in-wordpress/)
 * Hey guys,
 * I would like to know how I should handle stuff that I handled in a “normal” PHP
   Application with GET Variables. To be more specific, I need to know the following
   case.
 * I’ve created a “Custom Post Type” with a “Custom Taxonomy” for category. Now 
   I would like to get all Articles of a certain category. To create the SQL query
   is no problem at all. My only problem is delivering the info to the certain template
   file which term of which taxonomy is to grab. (Which I usually would achieve 
   by using simple GET Variables)
 * Example:
 * [http://www.example.com/template.php?taxonomy=projectcategory&term=music](http://www.example.com/template.php?taxonomy=projectcategory&term=music)
 * How can I achive this inside the permalink structure? I wouldn’t even need a 
   in depth explanation but maybe a reference to a good article/tutorial that describes
   that.
 * Thanks in advance,
    Marvin

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 *  Thread Starter [MNS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mns/)
 * (@mns)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-variables-in-wordpress/#post-1726395)
 * OK, I did some research and I came to some results. I use the get_term_link function
   to create the link I need. It works actually prefect as long as don’t use permalinks.
   It creates the following link without permalinks:
 * [http://www.example.com/?projectcategory=music](http://www.example.com/?projectcategory=music)
 * It directs to the template file taxonomy.php and I can read the value projectcategory(
   in this case it’s music) with get_query_var. That’s all I want as I can now filter
   all posts for this term.
 * BUT, when I now switch back to one of the permalink structures the link transforms
   into the following:
 * [http://www.example.com/projectkategory/music/](http://www.example.com/projectkategory/music/)
 * Looks nice but unfortunately now the link doesn’t direct to my taxonomy.php template
   file BUT to my index.php. Can someone explain this to me?
 * Thanks,
    Marvin
 *  Thread Starter [MNS](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mns/)
 * (@mns)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-variables-in-wordpress/#post-1726398)
 * Ehm, OK. After about 5 minutes now, it suddenly worked. Guess it has been a caching
   problem. Still weird.

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