Title: Pages' permalink rewrite array
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Pages' permalink rewrite array

 *  [larf2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/larf2k/)
 * (@larf2k)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-permalink-rewrite-array/)
 * Hello! I am having a heck of a time trying to get a certain page’s permalink 
   to be the title. I have a page called “projects” which links to a template file.
   I added this to my primary menu in the admin menu builder. Everything was fine,
   until I changed my mind and decided to use a rewrite rule in functions.php. I
   used this code:
 *     ```
       add_action('generate_rewrite_rules', 'my_generate_rewrite_rules');
        function my_generate_rewrite_rules( $wp_rewrite )
        {
          $new_rules = array(
           'projects/?$' => 'index.php?paged=1&post_type=project&orderby=title&order=ASC',
           'projects/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$' => 'index.php?&paged=$matches[1]&post_type=project&orderby=title&order=ASC',
           'projects/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$' => 'index.php?&feed=$matches[1]&post_type=project',
           'projects/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$' => 'index.php?&feed=$matches[1]&post_type=project'
   
         );
   
          $wp_rewrite->rules = $new_rules + $wp_rewrite->rules;
        }
       ```
   
 * I also added a custom menu item with an href of “/projects”. Well, that didn’t
   give me what I wanted either, so I decided to use the project.php template/page
   approach again. Basically reverted back to before, using a page and using the
   menu builder. But now, the permalink for the page is “projects-1”.
 * I’ve tried flushing the rewrite rules by adding
 *     ```
       add_action( 'generate_rewrite_rules','deactivate');
       function deactivate() {
           	global $wp_rewrite;
       	$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
       }
       ```
   
 * to functions.php, I’ve tried changing settings>permalinks to “reset” the permalinks,
   and I’ve tried deleting the page and reassembling it. Now it’s “projects-2”! 
   Obviously trashed pages’ permalink information is continuing to exist somewhere
   in the database, but I’m hesitant to go in there and just start dropping values.
   I obviously want the project page’s permalink to be /project.
 * Any ideas?

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 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pages-permalink-rewrite-array/)
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