Custom URL

Hi there,

It can’t work on movies indeed as most of the permalink structures are hard-corded in the plugin. That’s kind of poorly handled and we’ll fix this in version 2.0.

In the meantime you can edit the plugin’s rewrite rules in the register_permalinks() function of the includes/class-wpml-utils.php file and add you custom value to the regular expressions you want. Don’t forget to reload the dashboard’s “Permalinks” page so the changes are effective!

Sure, please try changing line 122 from:

$movies . '/([^/]+)/?$' => 'index.php?movie=$matches[1]',

To:

$movies . '/([^/]+)-your_value/?$' => 'index.php?movie=$matches[1]',
$movies . '/([^/]+)-your_value(/[0-9]+)?/?$]' => 'index.php?name=$matches[1]&page=$matches[2]',
$movies . '/([^/]+)-your_value/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$]' => 'index.php?name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]',

Let me know how this works!

It does work on my test installations; did you reload the Settings > Permalinks page to apply the change?

Don’t mention it! I noticed the suffix doesn’t show in the post editor, this is really a quick as I have virtually no idea on how to apply to movies the same rewrite rules as regular posts… That’s something I’ll be looking for to learn and implement in v2 🙂

That’s no stupid question; the simplest answer is that it makes it easier to develop and use in numerous ways. There are tools inside WordPress that make it much easier to use custom post types rather than regular posts you would have to constantly separate from movies before doing anything; using a CPT you can target actions on this post type only and leave all other post types aside, affect custom taxonomies to this CPT only, define metaboxes, etc…

The compatibility issue in another part of the problem, but I tend to see it the other way: more often than not, compatibility issues come from themes that doesn’t support custom post types or handle them poorly; but since the plugin uses regular WordPress techniques, every theme should work smoothly with it. Technically CPT are in all points similar to regular posts, except for the post_type field in the database that’s set to ‘movie’ instead of ‘post’; it’s really easy for theme developers to adapt, but obviously a lot of them just don’t think about it when working on a theme.

All considered, it is much more easier and cleaner to use a custom post type, even though compatibility with some themes can require a few tweaks 🙂