Wordpress - rewrite fake urls

Question

I created a fake page in wordpress, that i catch with this code:

if ($_GET['fake_page'] == "myfakepage") {
  add_filter('the_title','plugin_myown_title');
  add_filter('the_content','plugin_myown_content');
  add_action('template_redirect', 'plugin_myown_template');
}

this works correctly. Now what I'd like to do is to rewrite such this url

my_site?fake_page=myfakepage

in

my_site/product/myfakepage

where product is an existing page created from wordpress dashboard.

I followed this guide:

http://statichtml.com/2010/mod-rewrite-baseon-on-query-string.html

and defined this rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}     ^fake_page=(.*)$    [NC]
RewriteRule ^/$       my_site/product/%1      [NC,L,R=301]

but what i get is

my_site/product?fake_page=myfakepage

where is the problem? Besides I would like to know if typing into browser:

my_site/product/myfakepage

i could make wordpress treats it as

 my_site?fake_page=myfakepage

without any redirect. Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this code from your functions.php:

add_action( 'generate_rewrite_rules', 'my_rewrite_rules' );
function my_rewrite_rules( $wp_rewrite )
{
    $wp_rewrite->rules = array(
        'product/myfakepage/?$' => $wp_rewrite->index . '?fake_page=myfakepage',
    ) + $wp_rewrite->rules;
}

Note: you do not need that custom .htaccess. BTW: you souldn't modify .htaccess directly, never. There is an extensive Rewrite API in WordPress which allows you to apply custom rules.