I'm using WooCommerce with the "YITH WooCommerce Ajax Navigation" plugin to filter brands. The result is a link that appears as https://example.com/products/racquets/tennis-racquets/?filter_brands=47
Ideally, I would like to use https://example.com/products/racquets/tennis-racquets/brands/wilson
instead.
I've tried using an Apache mod_rewrite rule such as:
RewriteRule ^products/racquets/tennis-racquets/?filter_brands=47 /products/racquets/tennis-racquets/wilson [QSA,L]
I've also tried writing a function for my functions.php
file but that doesn't seem to catch either. Here's a sample of the code I tried using.
function brand_rewrite_rules() {
add_rewrite_rule( 'products/racquets/tennis-racquets/?filter_brands=47', 'products/racquets/tennis-racquets/wilson', 'top' );
flush_rewrite_rules();
}
add_action( 'init', 'brand_rewrite_rules' );
I did try updating my permalink settings but the function did not do anything. Can anyone propose a solution for this?
It's a matter of adding a Rewrite Endpoint:
Adding an endpoint creates extra rewrite rules for each of the matching places specified by the provided bitmask. A new query var with the same name as the endpoint will also be created. The string following the endpoint definition supplies the value for this query var (e.g. "/foo/bar/"
becomes "?foo=bar"
).
<?php
/**
* Plugin Name: Add a Brand endpoint to the URLs
* Plugin URI: http://stackoverflow.com/a/24331768/1287812
*/
add_action( 'init', function()
{
add_rewrite_endpoint( 'brands', EP_ALL );
});
add_filter( 'query_vars', function( $vars )
{
$vars[] = 'brands';
return $vars;
});
/**
* Refresh permalinks on plugin activation
* Source: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/108517/12615
*/
function WCM_Setup_Demo_on_activation()
{
if ( ! current_user_can( 'activate_plugins' ) )
return;
$plugin = isset( $_REQUEST['plugin'] ) ? $_REQUEST['plugin'] : '';
check_admin_referer( "activate-plugin_{$plugin}" );
add_rewrite_endpoint( 'brands', EP_ALL ); #source: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/118694/12615
flush_rewrite_rules();
}
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'WCM_Setup_Demo_on_activation' );
Then, in the templates use it like:
$brand = get_query_var('brand') ? urldecode( get_query_var('brand') ) : 'Empty endpoint';
echo $brand;