I am using a fantastic plugin called Query Multiple Taxonomies which provides a widget to “drill down” by category / tag and other custom taxonomies you may have.
The site is livetonom.com.
The widget (on the sidebar) gives URLS ending:
/?category_name=restaurants&locations=london
Is it possible to rewrite that to something like:
/restaurants/london
I tried using a rewrite rule generators but stuff like this added directly to .htaccess
did not work:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /?category_name=$1&locations=$2 [L]
I’m not even sure that adding to .htaccess
directly is correct or will work – can anyone let me know if this is a non-starter or how I go about this?
I think you are on the right track with .htaccess and rewrite rules
What you might consider is a 301 redirect in your .htaccess like this
Basically you can then tell people to go to your own friendly URL and they get redirected to the longer one that WordPress uses.
I’d have a look at Perishable Press stupid tricks with .htaccess
As another point of reference you can use go to WordPress Admin > Settings > Permalinks and change the word Category to Restaurants — but that will mean all your ‘categories’ are now ‘restaurants’