nickstaroba

Some more information just in case it’s helpful.

I’m running WordPress on IIS.

I set up an additional test site with no modifications and it does the same thing. The only real difference being that I installed WordPress in the root folder of the site rather than a sub-directory. (I thought this might be causing the problem…)

The test site is using Twenty Fourteen. The front page is set to the Sample Page from a fresh installation with the full width template. The posts page is set to a new page named Blog using the default template.

The permalinks are set to custom: /blog/%postname%/

Still getting root/page/2, root/page/3, etc.

The theme is adapt:

https://www.wpexplorer.com/adapt-free-responsive-wordpress-theme/

But, the same things happens on Twenty Fourteen as well.

Confirmed. That specific error message is gone.

I’m pretty sure they work well together. Yoast has given Genesis five stars: https://yoast.com/review/genesis/

I’ll probably be using the combination in my next project.

Thanks essaysnark! While that wasn’t exactly what I needed, it led me to the answer.

I used this as a reference:
https://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/

And it got me this:

add_action( 'init', 'add_position_rules' );
function add_position_rules() {
	add_rewrite_rule(
	"^position/([0-9]+)/?$",
	"articles/wp-content/themes/adapt-child/position.php?position=$1",
	"top");
}

Just a couple changes to the regex and getting rid of $matches[1] did the trick.

Just not getting this right now. Probably getting too late and I need to take a break from it…

Anyway, what I’m actually trying to do is create a pretty url that I can use to access data from a database separate from the WordPress database.

https://website/position/1234

would rewrite to

https://website/articles/wp-content/themes/adapt-child/position.php?position=1234

Then I can take $_GET[‘position’] and query the other database and display the result…

add_action( 'init', 'add_position_rules' );
function add_position_rules() {
	add_rewrite_rule(
	"/position\/([0-9]{4}$)/",
	"articles/wp-content/themes/adapt-child/position.php?whatever=$matches[1]",
	"top");
}

This appears to be working but it’s just returning my template page at /position

It’s not returning the custom position.php file (it was with the earlier iteration but the regex wasn’t returning 1234)

This is also not working for me. Any ideas?? It’s not syntax…