WordPress URL structure

Anyone?

if you go to https://www.chipbennett.net/wordpress/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
you change change the way that it all looks

I don’t want to *change* my blog permalink structure.

I want to know how WordPress *builds* the permalink structure. I don’t know PHP well enough to know how to put “stuff” after the …index.php – as follows:

…index.php/2006/03/fake-permalink/

How is that done? Is it a PHP thing, or a WP thing, or what?

What exactly are you trying to do? Are you just curious how it works behind the scenes? Or what?

@chipbennett. It’s neither a WP nor a PHP thing, it’s a mod_rewrite thing. Yor URL’s are being written into human friendly URL’s by a series of rules.

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html
The science behind it all. Good luck.

IIIIIIIV,

Oh, it’s an Apache thing! ??

Thanks! That was exactly what I was looking for…

Now, to go edumacate myself ??

Well, in v1.x, it’s done all via mod_rewrite (including parsing), but in v2.x, mod_rewirte just hands it off to WordPress which decodes the URL.