My WordPress site has a portfolio that is at www.mysite.com/portfolio/. The portfolio sections & items are administered through a custom plugin I created. I want to access the individual items like www.mysite.com/portfolio/my-cool-photo & have that put “my-cool-photo” into a query string like ?portfolio_item=my-cool-photo so I can read it from my code.
In the plugins activation PHP file I have this code:
function add_rewrite_rules($wp_rewrite) { $new_rules = array( 'portfolio/(.+)/?$' => 'index.php?&portfolio_item=$1' ); $wp_rewrite->rules = $new_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;}add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'add_rewrite_rules');function query_vars($public_query_vars) { $public_query_vars[] = "portfolio_item"; return $public_query_vars;}add_filter('query_vars', 'query_vars');This adds the rewrite rule to the array OK. The problem is it’s not doing anything. When I go to www.mysite.com/portfolio/testing/ I obtain the “This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?” WordPress 404 error page. Obviously the redirect isn’t working, so the query string won’t be filled, yet just to make sure I did this:
global $wp_query, $wp_rewrite;if ($wp_rewrite->using_permalinks()) { $searchKey = $wp_query->query_vars['portfolio_item'];} else { $searchKey = $_GET['portfolio_item'];}…and sure enough the query string isn’t getting passed.
Is there something I’m missing?
After you update the WordPress rewrite rules, you need to flush them:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/flush_rewrite_rules
You can select to flush with the $hard parameter true, & then you should be able to see your rewrite rules in the .htaccess file.
