Comments on: Override single WordPress pages with .htaccess

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:34:14 +0000

Jason –

The method described here completely overwrites a page with a static HTML page. I don’t think you can do it on WordPress.com.

If you mean modifying the template on an install you’re hosting yourself… just modify the template files!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:57:04 +0000

I want to be able to modifiy the wordpress templates. I was told a while back all you had to do was make a .htaccess file and some information inside that file to be able to modifiy templates inside wordpress dashboard. What code do i need to accomplish this.

By: Strider

Strider — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:45:46 +0000

Ben — for my take on tags vs. categories, see this post.

By: Jared Elvidge

Jared Elvidge — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:58:32 +0000

This is good stuff! I’m having a similar .htaccess problem that maybe somebody here could help me with. I have the standard wordpress stuff shared above in my htaccess file and have also added the following:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^product/([0-9]+)/$ /product.php?sku=$1

I’m trying to be able to use product/1234 in the url string but still grab the sku number as a GET variable on my static (not controlled by wordpress) product.php page.

If I delete the wordpress stuff, my rewriterule works perfectly, but of course the rest of the site doesn’t because the wordpress directives are gone. But with the wordpress stuff in place my rewriterule doesn’t work. Any suggestions for me?

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:14:46 +0000

And yaa, that was a typo … my example shudda used Extension in both cases. *sigh*

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:13:37 +0000

I think there’s something about the Category/Tag relationship I don’t understand. To my way of thinking, tags should be as though nested beneath category … so (making up an example here) Extension/WordPress should produce a different set than Extenxion/Firefox … I don’t think that happens at the moment.

I’m rushing right now, so forgive me if this is valueless to you, but it’s interesting:
There are 30ish top-level categories, each with a number of 2nd level categories, each with a number of 3rd level categories… when I add additional 3rd level categories, often they don’t show up in admin>manage>categories or on
the site itself, though they are in MySQ”
“Is there a limit” in the [WP-Pro] list

By: Strider

Strider — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:27:56 +0000

Ben — I’m trying (retroactively in some cases) to keep blog categories fairly broad. (Though I will probably be moving my plugins to a dedicated “WordPress” section instead of “Features”)

You can, however, pull up a page of just WordPress-related posts by clicking on the WordPress tag at the end of this post — in the “Filed Under” list. Looks kinda like this: WordPress. You can even get an RSS feed by tacking /feed/ to the end of the URL.

Just one more thing I love about WordPress — great URL structure!

By: Ben Tremblay

Ben Tremblay — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:56:09 +0000

Yes, “brill” covers it. Thanks for spending the extra time to explain … so many really good plugins don’t share their voodoo … this serves as a real good working example, kinda like a tutorial.

p.s. I just grabbed your pull-quote plugin; it’s really lovely. (You gonna create a plugins category?