Utilizing WordPress's permalink structure on custom post types

Question

I need to rewrite some URLs to custom templates. For example, I have a page at domain.com/page, and when a user clicks 'remove' on an element, it goes to domain.com/page/?remove=54. I'd like it to rewrite to domain.com/page/remove/54.

Help is appreciated, thank you in advance!

You might consider asking this on wordpress.stackexchange.com — John P Bloch
Very good point, I'm on it.. also, simplified the question quite a bit above. Thank you. — Gavin

Gavin Gavin · Accepted Answer · 2010-12-21T15:43:57

This exact code is untested, but it's derived from another instance of a similar situation that I did solve recently:

add_action( 'init', 'ss_permalinks' );
function ss_permalinks() {
    add_rewrite_rule(
        'page/remove/([^/]+)/?',
        'index.php?pagename=page&service=$matches[1]',
        'top'
);
}
add_filter( 'query_vars', 'ss_query_vars' );
function ss_query_vars( $query_vars ) {
    $query_vars[] = 'removeid';
    return $query_vars;
}

Re-save your permalink settings once after implementing. page is the slug of the page to point to when the user access this URL (domain.com/page/remove/432), and $matches[1] should be the number after remove/ in the URL. This number is accessible by the variable specified later, $query_vars[] = 'removeid';/ $removeid on the target page's template will be the number in the URL, if specified.

Utilizing WordPress's permalink structure on custom post types

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