REGEX/Regular Expression
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Apologies if this has been asked before but after searching I wasn’t able to find it.
I use MailPoet which drives traffic back to the site via email links like:
I am significantly limiting the plug loads on all of my pages only loading what’s necessary on each, however I’m unable to do so on the home page for plugins that use url variables.
I’d love to use something like:
https://domain.com/\?email_id(.*)
or
https://domain.com/(.*)wysija(.*)Is it possible to use regular expressions currently? Or could it be made possible?
Thanks Jeff
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It’s been asked for many times. It isn’t possible because of the way that the wordpress core works. This plugin has to run outside of the core so the url you are accessing is used to search the database for a row with a matching url. The entry you make in the plugin filter isn’t used to search since that isn’t known at the time when the page is loaded. To do what you are asking the code would have to load every row in the database on every page load and try to match the url being accessed. Which would kill your server if you had more than just a few posts/pages.
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