custom url rewriting in wordpress

[jasmeet]

hello,

 

on click this link, i am redirecting to page-listing-category.php page. and all listing are shown there.

 

http://domain-name/listing-category/?a=hello

 

 

but i want this link as  http://domain-name/listing-category/hello

 

... i use this code in function.php

 

add_rewrite_tag("%a%",'([0-9]+)');

 

 

$a = get_query_var("a"); // Wordpress way

add_rewrite_rule('listing-category/([0-9]+)/?$', 'index.php?page_id=page-listing-category&a=$matches[1]', 'top');

add_rewrite_tag("%a%",'([0-9]+)');

add_rewrite_rule('listing-category/([0-9]+)/?$', 'index.php?page_id=page-listing-category&a=$matches[1]', 'top');

$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

 

but, problem is the above isn't working ...

 

can anypne suggest me something on this. ??

 

 

thanks.

 

 

 

 

[jairathnem]

have you tried permalinks?

 

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

[jasmeet]

yes... but for this link, i need to create my own custom url rewriting..

[zantins]

add_rewrite_rule('listing-category/([0-9]+)/?$', 'index.php?page_id=page-listing-category&a=$matches[1]', 'top');

 

Lets use the above quoted line as an example. First thing i would suggest here  is to remove the last slash, the question mark and the $ from your query string. You can put it back later after you tested a few things.

 

Next you should reference the page slug with "pagename" not "page_id"

 

The next thing would be that this function should be called within the wordpress "init" action hook. For example: add_action("init","my_init_function");

 

You need to hook into the "query_vars" hook and add your variables, for example your "a" query var to the wordpress query variables:

 

 

function my_query_vars($vars){

 

    $vars[] = "a";

 

    return $vars;

}

add_filter("query_vars","my_query_vars");

 

 

Finally, go into the wordpress admin to Settings->permalinks and hit save, to refresh your permalinks setup.

 

Give that a try, it may need some playing around with but that is the basics of what needs to be done. You would then  access your query var in the page template as: get_query_var("a");

 

 

[jasmeet]

Lets use the above quoted line as an example. First thing i would suggest here  is to remove the last slash, the question mark and the $ from your query string. You can put it back later after you tested a few things.

 

Next you should reference the page slug with "pagename" not "page_id"

 

The next thing would be that this function should be called within the wordpress "init" action hook. For example: add_action("init","my_init_function");

 

You need to hook into the "query_vars" hook and add your variables, for example your "a" query var to the wordpress query variables:

 

 

Finally, go into the wordpress admin to Settings->permalinks and hit save, to refresh your permalinks setup.

 

Give that a try, it may need some playing around with but that is the basics of what needs to be done. You would then  access your query var in the page template as: get_query_var("a");

 

 

thanks for your reply .