wp_rewrite rule needed for Custom Post Type WordPress

Armand Morin comments:

Julian,

Ok, I'm missing something here. Does this integrate with what we did yesterday? Or should this be added by itself?

Also, do I have to modify something here to set the custom post type?

Armand Morin comments:

One more thing... the reason I think it must be a rewrite is that the code you did yesterday works fine if the root is www.example.com but when I tested on my test xampp setup where my url is localhost/sandbox/ it didn't work.

Julian Lannigan comments:

Hey Armand,

I fixed the issue using redirects. I added this code, replacing the older code, with the following:

class LoadRewrites {

public function __construct() {
$this->buildRewrites();
add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', array(&$this, 'addRewrites'));
add_filter('query_vars', array(&$this, 'addQueryVars'));
add_action('wp_loaded', array(&$this, 'flushRules'));
}

public function buildRewrites() {
$newrules = array();

$frontPost = get_post(get_option("page_on_front"));
$newrules['^$'] = 'index.php?salesletters='.$frontPost->post_name;

$this->newrules = $newrules;
}

public function addRewrites($rules) {
return $this->newrules + $rules;
}

public function addQueryVars($vars) {
//array_push($vars, 'theCategory');
return $vars;
}

public function flushRules() {
$rules = get_option('rewrite_rules');

foreach ($this->newrules as $rule) {
if (!isset($rules[$rule])) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
return;
}
}
}
}
new LoadRewrites();

Armand Morin comments:

Julian,

Sooo close.

The redirect stopped and that looks great. One minor problem. If you click on a NORMAL PAGE now and want to set that as the homepage, you get page not found.

Julian Lannigan comments:

Fixed, I changed the rewrite to include the post's type. Here is the corrected code:

class LoadRewrites {

public function __construct() {
$this->buildRewrites();
add_filter('rewrite_rules_array', array(&$this, 'addRewrites'));
add_filter('query_vars', array(&$this, 'addQueryVars'));
add_action('wp_loaded', array(&$this, 'flushRules'));
}

public function buildRewrites() {
$newrules = array();

$frontPost = get_post(get_option("page_on_front"));
$newrules['^$'] = 'index.php?'.$frontPost->post_type.'='.$frontPost->post_name;

$this->newrules = $newrules;
}

public function addRewrites($rules) {
return $this->newrules + $rules;
}

public function addQueryVars($vars) {
//array_push($vars, 'theCategory');
return $vars;
}

public function flushRules() {
$rules = get_option('rewrite_rules');

foreach ($this->newrules as $rule) {
if (!isset($rules[$rule])) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
return;
}
}
}
}
new LoadRewrites();

Armand Morin comments:

You're awesome!!! Perfect.