Folder-based navigation

  • randybrown

    (@randybrown)


    22 years ago

    I appreciate your help with the following:
    I’m curious how Matt, Zeldman and others are accomplishing the folder-based navigation? On these sites, they have a nav bar which points to a folder, i.e.: /archives/. I know how to change the paths and create the folders, etc. I have even got some of this working. Example:
    I created folders for an “about” page, a “links” page, and an “archives” page. I modified the main index.php to include only what was needed for these particular pages. I copied these into their respective folders and named them each index.php. I modified the naivation to point to just the folder names. I also changed the path to wp-blog-headers.php to point outside the new folder strcuture; simply added a . to the front of the path.
    The “about” and “reading” pages worked just fine, but the “archives” page simply refreshed the main index.php of the site; did not display the archives.
    Perhaps my method is not even the best way to accomplish the folder-based navigation; it certainly didn’t work as I intended.
    Anyone have a suggestion for me? Perhaps this would also be of interest to others.
    TIA
    <rb>
    BTW: I switched my site back to the non-folder based nav.

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  • Nick Momrik

    (@mtdewvirus)

    22 years ago

    The reason archives did not work is because /archives/ is taken over by the rewrite rules and wordpress. So creating a folder named archives will never get accessed because the rewrite rules will always call up index.php and pass it parameters (if there are any).

    Thread Starter randybrown

    (@randybrown)

    22 years ago

    If your content is not hardcoded…there will be another answer

    What would that be? I do want to do some WP database queries on a couple of the pages?
    Thanks!
    <rb>

    Thread Starter randybrown

    (@randybrown)

    22 years ago

    The reason archives did not work is because /archives/ is taken over by the rewrite rules and wordpress.

    Thanks, MtnDew. So, I should able to use a different name and all will be well. Will do a test now.
    <rb>

    nickknowledge

    (@nickknowledge)

    22 years ago

    I have an existing site (non-WP, but I’m migrating), with URI’s in the form
    http://www.mysite.org/geography/mountains/
    As a default with WP, even if I create sub-categories with just one post, the links will become:
    http://www.mysite.org/category/geography/mountains/
    However, adding this to the .htaccess file immediately after the RewriteBase line redirects them nicely:
    RewriteRule ^geography/?(.*) /wordpress/index.php?category_name=geography&$1 [QSA]

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