I was recently remaking rewrite rules for my project – https://sochi.asp.sale/. The idea was to use post-types in url as well as custom post metas to form url containing
/real-estate/location/deal type or property type/
Here is the example code, I’m using, basically in 3 steps:
- Removing the permalink, that was set by theme developer
- Creating rewrite rules
- Making sure they will be used in all links
// Remove old rules add_action( "after_setup_theme", 'custom_remove_permalink', 1); function custom_remove_permalink(){ remove_action( "after_setup_theme", 'active_permalinks'); } // Create custom rules add_action( "after_setup_theme", 'custom_active_permalinks'); function custom_active_permalinks() { global $wp_rewrite; $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag("%custompost%", '([^/]+)', "custompost="); $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag( "%custompost-type%", '(.+?)', "custompost-type=" ); $wp_rewrite->add_rewrite_tag( "%companies%", '(.+?)', "companies=" ); $rewrite_args = array(); $rewrite_args['walk_dirs'] = false; add_rewrite_rule( '([^/]+)/projects/?$', 'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&post_type=custompost', 'top' ); $wp_rewrite->add_permastruct('custompost', '%companies%/projects/%custompost%', $rewrite_args); } // Make sure that all links on the site, include the related texonomy terms add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'custom_custompost_permalink', 10, 2 ); function custom_custompost_permalink( $permalink, $post ) { if ( $post->post_type !== 'custompost' ) { return $permalink; } $companies = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'company', true ); if ( ! $companies ) { $permalink = str_replace( '%companies%', 'defaultvalue', $permalink ); } else { $permalink = str_replace( '%companies%', $companies , $permalink ); } $terms = wp_get_post_terms($post->ID, 'custompost-type', array( 'orderby' => 'parent', 'order' => 'DESC' )); if ( ! $terms ) { $permalink = str_replace( '%custompost-type%', '_yoast_wpseo_primary_category', $permalink ); } else { $permalink = str_replace( '%custompost-type%', $terms[0]->slug , $permalink ); } $authordata = get_userdata($post->post_author); $author = $authordata->user_nicename; if ( ! $author ) { $permalink = str_replace( '%author%', 'author', $permalink ); } else { $permalink = str_replace( '%author%', $author , $permalink ); } return $permalink; }