Title: Weird issue Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Weird issue * [codelizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codelizard/) * (@codelizard) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/) * Ok I had this issue once before, and I THOUGHT I had posted about it, but here it is again and I can find no reference to the solution. * So I run a wordpress site: www guitars news daily .com. * I’m having a URL issue. * I have a custom section which is a vendors database: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/) * This is a plugin system using the “generate rewrite rules” to add a new rule. Any URL that starts with “/vendors/” is sent to my plugin to handle. This works 99 times out of 100. However, this is not always the case. * For example, this URL: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha/) * skips my plugin, and instead redirects to: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/2010/09/yamaha-introduces-james-toseland-signature-guitar/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/2010/09/yamaha-introduces-james-toseland-signature-guitar/) * If I change one letter: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yemaha/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yemaha/) * My plugin catches it. If I remove the “maha” from the above example, it redirects here: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/2010/06/yes-toto-yoso-no-really/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/2010/06/yes-toto-yoso-no-really/) * It seems like it is taking my third parm, and doing a keyword search on it. * Can anyone shed some light on this and tell me how to make it stop? I want all urls starting with “/vendors” to go to my plugin, end of story. Not only if the third parm is not a wildcard match. * Any assistance would be appreciated. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * Thread Starter [codelizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codelizard/) * (@codelizard) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/#post-3872497) * More information: * I’ve been tracing this, and this is whats happening: * I have an add_filter call for “template_include”, which is used to find which template I am using. This is how I send everything starting with “/vendors” to my own template for processing. * Unfortunately, the URL is being redirected to the new one before the template_include call is made. Hence, skipping my vendor section. * Still looking for help! * Thread Starter [codelizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codelizard/) * (@codelizard) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/#post-3872520) * Ok, I finally figured out that this is a fruitless exercise. I tried changing the number of parms, so it wasnt the third parm and no matter what I did, it always ended up the same. So, instead of my URLS doing this: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha/](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha/) * They now do this: * [http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha.html](http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha.html) * And they work great. I still wish I knew WHY it was doing the above, but I’ve now worked around it. * Moderator [keesiemeijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keesiemeijer/) * (@keesiemeijer) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/#post-3872540) * > I have a custom section which is a vendors database * Is this a custom post type or a taxonomy or something else? Can you show us your rewrite rules? * Thread Starter [codelizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codelizard/) * (@codelizard) * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/#post-3872556) * It is neither a custom post type nor taxonomy. I dont have any special rewrite rules in the .htaccess. * I add a rewrite rule for this: ‘vendors(/?.*)?’ just so wordpress doesnt send me to the 404 page. Then, I use a filter for “template_include” where I check the URL. If the first section of the url is “vendors”, I then send them to my Vendors template. * All of my work then happens in the vendors template. * The issue seems to be if the url ends in “/”, and is not a direct hit on an existing url, it is doing a keyword search on the last parm in the string and redirecting to that article. * By changing the way I do my URLS to end in “.html”, this no longer happens. I would still like an explanation, but for the moment this is working. I even just got done creating all of the 301 redirects for the 200+ urls I just changed. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Weird issue’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [codelizard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codelizard/) * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-issue-2/#post-3872556) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics