Title: taxonomy plugin question Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # taxonomy plugin question * [desert-rat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desert-rat/) * (@desert-rat) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/) * There are several plugins that support the notion of a “taxonomy”. Some do URL rewriting. But the end result of them seems to be to create virtual pages and things like “tag clouds”. * I need a way to do a URL rewrite, then pick up the value inside of a regular wordpress page. * I’ve played with the various taxonomy plugins I’ve found, but I can’t figure out how to get hold of values inside the page, and haven’t found any examples. * The plugin descriptions, where they explain anything, just show a couple of functions to call. How do you call these functions from within the content of a page? * (Do you need to use exec_php?) * I don’t need tag clouds or virtual pages. I just need to be able to take something like this: * mydomain.com/something/a_page/someid * and convert it to the equivalent of: * mydomain.com/something/a_page/?theid=someid * and then access $theid within the content of the page for a_page. * Thanks -David Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/) * (@scribu) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741772) * What does `someid` represent and what do you need to do with it? * Thread Starter [desert-rat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desert-rat/) * (@desert-rat) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741780) * It’s a standard querystring argument=value pair. * Here’s a more concrete example: * I need URLs of this form: * coolstuff.com/product/prod1234 * to work as if they’re given as: * coolstuff.com/product?prodid=prod1234 * and I need to be able to access the valued of $prodid (however it’s given) inside the content of the Page that WordPress brings up as * coolstuff.com/product * For example, a query to pull up info on the product where prodid=”prod1234″ * Or a form to request more information or pricing and availability regarding that product, where there’s a hidden field, say, that identifies this as product “ prod1234”, as taken from the URL. * -David * [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/) * (@scribu) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741794) * Have you tried defining a ‘product’ custom post type? * Note that you can’t do everything from “within the page content”. You have to learn a little bit about the [template hierarchy](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Hierarchy) too. * Thread Starter [desert-rat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/desert-rat/) * (@desert-rat) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741797) * I’m not trying to create a taxonomy. I do not want or need custom page templates. I don’t even need custom post types. * I’m simply trying to find a plugin that comes close to doing what this guy describes: * [http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/comment-page-1/](http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/comment-page-1/) * His approach requires you to modify the theme’s function.php file and some other theme-specific stuff. However, putting this logic into a plugin would let you do this with any theme. * I’ve searched around, and the only plugins I can find that do URL rewriting are SEO plugins and those that help you manage taxonomies. * Simply put, if I have a URL like this: * mydomain.com/product/scissors * It gets rewritten as something like this: * mydomain.com/product?prod_type=scissors * Then I can have a Page at: * mydomain.com/product * that can pick up the last term “scissors” in a variable like {prod_type} and run a query on it like this: * select * from products where prod_type = “{prod_type}” * (The syntax “{xyz}” is hypothetical. It’s just an example.) * and the page would actually run the query: * select * from products where prod_type = “scissors” * There are plenty of places within WordPress that do URL rewriting, like permalinks. * There are plenty of plugins that do this exact kind of substitution in regular Pages. * I’m simply looking for a way to rewrite the URL, assigning the last field to a (fixed) variable, and being able to access that variable and its value within a Page. * Maybe there’s a plugin that does exactly this. But taxonomies are the closest things I’ve found to doing this so far. * -David * [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/) * (@scribu) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741808) * You won’t find a plugin that does this because it’s not the right way to do it in WordPress. * The page content is for content. If you need to do other stuff, like SQL queries etc., you should create a custom page template, like the tutorial you mentioned suggests. Here’s how: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates) * If you really want to have it your way, your best bet is to hire a developer to write a custom plugin for you: * [http://jobs.wordpress.net](http://jobs.wordpress.net) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘taxonomy plugin question’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [taxonomy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/taxonomy/) * [url rewrite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/url-rewrite/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/) * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taxonomy-plugin-question/#post-1741808) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics