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I found the solution to using a URL such as
http://www.mysite.com/myphpcode/var1-var2-var3 in a wordpress
page containing custom php code and custom permalinks such as
/%postname%/

The solution is described here:
http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/

If you read this you will see that you need to update two php mpodules.
You must change functions.php located in the root folder for the specific wordpress theme you are using. The other module to change would be your own custom php code where you want to interpret the URL that has just been pressed. Note: In my situation, myphpcode is a program that keeps getting called with different values in the query string. My program, myphpcode, knows how to interpret these query string values because it created the href links in the first place.

Thus, in my example, http://www.mysite.com/myphpcode/var1-var2-var3

myphpcode is a wordpress Page that contains my custom php code and
var1-var2-var3 is acting as a query string.

The problem was that wordpress did not recognize this URL.
By default I believe it tried to interpret myphpcode like
category in a standard wordpress URL with a Post called my-first-topic.
For example, http://www.mysite.com/category/my-first-topic
is a standard structure for many wordpress posts.

I wanted wordpress to recognize myphpcode as a wordpress page containing php code. This can be accomplished using the add_rewrite_rules function described at http://www.rlmseo.com/blog/passing-get-query-string-parameters-in-wordpress-url/

Here is the complete code as it relates to the URL I have been describing: http://www.mysite.com/myphpcode/var1-var2-var3

[Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

In any event, the code added to functions.php did help define my URL with my program and query string to wordpress. I was then able to get the pagename and query string from $_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”]

The wordpress site that is actually using this code can be viewed at

http://babynamesdiary.com/baby-names-and-meanings/baby-names-A-1/

In this URL, baby-names-and-meanings is a wordpress page containing my custom php code and baby-names-A-1 is the query string.
The customer for whom I created this application wanted the URL this way for SEO purposes. Hope this helps. Buona Fortuna!

I resolved this by inserting my own php code in the header.php file
for the theme I was using. To clarify – the header.php file you want to alter is within the theme’s root folder. In this case the theme is called Finesse and I altered the header.php code as shown:

//Original line

<title><?php $theme->meta_title(); ?></title>

/*Altered line – NOTE: I removed the <title> … </title> and inserted this line. You could comment out the <title> line if you want. build-meta-tags.php is my own code which uses information from the query string at the end of my URL. I used this to create the <title> as well as the description and keywords meta tags. Some of the information to use in the tags came from a MySQL query to a table which the user can alter for the various meta tag information they may want to show.*/

<?php include_once(‘build-meta-tags.php’) ?>

Thanks for the reply.

I did not know I needed the addMyMetaTagInfo() function.
Not sure how to use it though. I don’t see any info on this function either.

I’m still unclear how a meta tag plugin would help me insert meta tag info dynamically unless it has some functionality that lets me provide the meta information as the user requests a new page. The information to be presented in the meta tag is not available until the user makes a selection that runs a MySQL query. Thus it can only be provided as the php code gets it.

Thank You for your assistance.

Thanks for the reply,

I don’t think the HTML Import 2 plugin is going to be practical for what I want to accomplish. I tried to upload a 1000 pages. It loaded them into the wp_posts table but there was a side effect. I could not get back into the Pages via the dashboard. I had to re-buld wp_posts with less records. I was then able to get back in. HTML Import 2 is probably OK for less pages.

As an alternative I know an Iframe tag will display another document within wordpress. This might have possibilities but it looks like I have to figure out how to make it work with wordpress because it looks like it messes up the page – the sidebar disappears in the Twenty Ten theme.

Another option I have been trying is to use PHP code to create dynamic pages. I just need to figure out how to modify .htaccess to get the correct URL’s.

Thank You.