BWB ReWriter

The BWB ReWriter WordPress plugin is now available for download. This plugin is fairly specialized and fairly technical. It will provide you with an easy to use interface for building URL rewriting rules to be used with the WordPress ReWrite engine.

Why do I Need ReWrite Rules?

WordPress’ rewriter engine will take pretty URLs and turn them into Query Variables that you can use in your Code. So, note…if you’re not writing code to use URL variables, you probably don’t need this plugin.

But let’s have an example…say you want to have a pretty URL like:

www.mysite.com/travel/st-louis/the-arch/

To get that into a format that your CMS application can use, you need some rewrite rules to transform that the WordPress engine can translate. So while the user sees a pretty URL like the above, ultimately, you want the computer to read something like:

www.mysite.com/index.php?page=1&city=st-louis&destination=the-arch

Given the proper rewrite rule, WordPress will translate all of this into query variables that you can call in your code…the get_query_var() function would work like this:

get_query_var(‘city’) returns ’st-louis’

get_query_var(‘destination’) returns ‘the-arch’