[wp-hackers] Bug or feature: Wordpress default rewrite rules cannot be overridden?

[Bjorn Wijers]

I will answer my own question so people searching the archives might
benefit from my experience:

It seems that this was indeed not working due to a faulty regex pattern.

Instead of this pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,})

I needed to use: ([^/]+)

Now a postname (which very likely contains a hyphen to replace spaces)
will be matched. The previous pattern would only match strings without
hyphens and thus it could not find my rule, and the canonical redirect
kicked in.

Thanks again to Austin Matzko for pointing me in the right direction!

grtz
BjornW

> Austin,
> 
> Thank you very much for your quick reply!.
> 
> I'm not quite there yet. Since using this gives me a 404 instead of the
> page it should redirect to. I presume my rule does not match correctly
> when using permalinks? Or am I missing something else?
> 
> This is the rule I use:
> 
> $docs_rule3 = array(
> 'this-is-a-page/this-is-my-public-q-var/([a-zA-Z0-9]{1,})/?$' =>
> 'index.php?pagename=this-is-a-page&my-extra-var=this-is-my-public-q-var&this-is-a-var=$matches[1]'
> );
> 
> To match this:
> 
> http://site.dev/this-is-a-page/this-is-my-public-query-var/this-is-a-random-string/
> 
> or without permalinks
> 
> http://site.dev/?pagename=this-is-a-page&my-extra-var=this-is-my-public-query-var&this-is-a-var=this-is-a-random-string
> 
> Both should redirect to the page. In this case with the name
> this-is-a-page.
> 
> Any help much appreciated!
> 
> grtz
> BjornW
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Austin Matzko wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Bjorn Wijers <burobjorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> However when this-is-a-random == an-existing-post-name it does not work
>>> instead it redirects to the single post template. BUT only when
>>> permalinks are switched on! If permalinks are off it still works.
>> I believe what you're seeing is a feature called "canonical redirect,"
>> which attempts to guess the correct destination for non-matching URLs.
>>
>>> Basically what I want is
>>>
>>> First check my rules for blog posts and use these if they match
>>> otherwise continue with the default rules/behaviour, which it does for
>>> all strings not similar to an existing postname.
>> You should be able to disable canonical redirect like so:
>>
>> remove_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');
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