[wp-hackers] Learning WordPress and Getting Support

[peter baylies]

Aero,

If I understand your question, it sounds like you want to know how to use
rewrite rules to rewrite urls in a plugin; here's a tutorial that might
help: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/wordpress-url-rewrite/

Cheers,

 -- Peter

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Aero Maxx <aero.maxx.d at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have tried this and whereas I have managed to find bits here and there
> how to do things, I have generally struggled and struggled to find what I
> have been after as sometimes the information is there but its difficult to
> find when you dont know what to search for, or when you have found
> something generally hit a stumbling block trying to implement which is
> where I am now, I have posted on both wordpress stackexchange and
> stackoverflow.
>
> http://wordpress.**stackexchange.com/questions/**
> 76194/wordpress-plug-ins-how-**to-add-custom-seo-friendly-**url-handles<http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/76194/wordpress-plug-ins-how-to-add-custom-seo-friendly-url-handles>
> http://stackoverflow.com/**questions/13850933/wordpress-**
> plug-ins-how-to-add-custom-**seo-friendly-url-handles<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13850933/wordpress-plug-ins-how-to-add-custom-seo-friendly-url-handles>
>
>
> On 15/12/2012 18:43, Chris Williams wrote:
>
>> The way I learned wp as a programmer (probably 5 years ago) was by
>> watching it work.  I loaded it up in a debugger (I use Komodo, but there
>> are a million choices), and just walked through the code.  Not line by
>> line, but more function by function, skipping over things at the start,
>> then delving into functions when I wanted to know more.  Saw how the
>> functions are loaded, how the query is parsed, how the loop is executed,
>> how the database is accessed, how output is generated, etc., and not just
>> theoretically, but in code as it went by.
>>
>> It's a pretty hard-core way of doing it, but for me to this day, nothing
>> is better than setting a breakpoint at something I don't understand, and
>> walking through it.
>>
>> As for getting support, I gave up on the WP support forum years ago.  You
>> get three results: 1) no response whatsoever, 2) some idiot who doesn¹t
>> read your question but simply points you to the codex, or 3) a wrong
>> (usually stale) answer.  Google is best.  There are thousands of people
>> who figure something out and then blog about it, or you get results in
>> places like StackOverflow or other forums that will point you in the right
>> direction.  Then I head back into the code (see above) with the bread
>> crumbs I got from Google as a guide.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Chris
>>
>> On 12/14/12 2:01 PM, "Aero Maxx" <aero.maxx.d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Whats the best way to learn the wordpress way of doing things and
>>> getting support when get stuck, as getting limited to no help via this
>>> mailing list is there something else or another way I should be going
>>> about this, how did you all get to where you are today and learn the ins
>>> and outs of wordpress and how to do things within it and its functions.
>>>
>>> I've tried stack exchange generally get no answers there either, and
>>> have also tried the wordpress support forums, sadly the same there too,
>>> generally get no meaningful answers.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Daniel.
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