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Custom Routing for WordPress

Inspired by Themosis Routing which in turns uses Laravel's Routing this WP Router abstraction adds support for adding custom routes and callbacks on WordPress' routes while using WordPress functions (add_rewrite_rule, add_rewrite_tag) and without the need of adding third-party routers.

Developed in collaboration with @tatundkraft.

Installation

Install this package via composer:

Initialise the dispatcher:

The dispatcher takes a CustomRouterInterface, a TemplateRouterInterface, and a AjaxRouterInterface as optional arguments, if none are provided, the default Routers are initialised.

Custom Routes

The previous example adds a custom route my-custom-route that only responds to GET (and HEAD) request, and passes back a WP_Query object to your callback.

Methods

At the moment the methods GET, POST, and HEAD are implemented; custom routes can be added via the following methods:

• head (matches HEAD requests): head(string $route, callable $callable)
• get (matches GET and HEAD requests): get(string $route, callable $callable)
• post (matches POST requests): post(string $route, callable $callable)
• any (matches GET, POST, and HEAD requests): any(string $route, callable $callable)
• match methods get passed as first argument: match(array $methods, string $route, callable $callable)

and match which takes possible methods as a first parameter:

Variables

Variables can be either matched and thus be used as query_vars or be non-matching and only act as a way of validating the route.

Variables are added in the following form {VARNAME:REGEX} and you can leave out either VARNAME or the REGEX.

In the following example form_id and input_name are passed back as query_vars in the $query object. The last regex simply matches any three characters, e.g. abc but not abcd (and does not add a query var):

Notes:

• These variables are "private" and can therefore not be used in a URL query string; cf. Public vs. Private query vars

Rewrite Tags

Already registered query vars (either built-in public vars or registered through plugins et al.) can be used in the route, and are registered with leading and trailing %, i.e. {%QUERYVAR%:REGEX}:

This will match the built-in page_id query var and add a custom field_id query variable to WP_Query.

Notes:

• All rewrite tags are "public query vars" and can be used in a URL query string; cf. Public vs. Private query vars
• Be careful when adding a regular expression to an already defined rewrite tag, as this will override the previous regex.

Redirects

The RouterInterface has a method to add redirects:

This route will redirect https://YOURSITE.com/twitter/alpipego to https://twitter.com/alpipego

Of course, redirects can also have regular expressions and rewrite tags in the route.

Notes:

• By default only GET and HEAD requests get redirected
• The default redirect code is 308 making sure the HTTP method gets redirected properly

  Callbacks

  You can pass any callable as a callback.

The callback will receive the current WP_Query object as the first parameter, and the following return types can be handled:

• If the callback returns false propagation is stopped, and the request ends (i.e., no template gets rendered).
• The callback may return the full path to a valid template file (basically any PHP file), which then gets required.
• If the callback does not have a return value, WordPress' default template loading and hierarchy kicks in.

Template Routing

Conditionals

The condition method takes a callable that returns a boolean value as its first argument and a callback to be executed right before rendering the template if the condition is true as its second argument. Both callbacks receive the current WP_Query to act on, the callable also receives the full path to the template file. See the section on callbacks on how they are handled.

Post Type Templates

Register post type templates without the constraints the WordPress implementation has. The template method takes a template file path as the first argument—relative to the current (child) theme, the template name (for the wp-admin sidebar select box) as the second, the post types for which this template should be available as the third and a callback as the final argument. See the section on callbacks on how they are handled. In addition to the current WP_Query object, the callback function receives the full path to the template as the second argument:

Ajax Routing

AJAX requests can be either GET or POST requests (or both), and apply to logged-in users only or all users. You can define custom routes for AJAX requests in the following format:

Notes:

• Compared to the other routers, the callback does not receive a WP_Query object; the query vars are included in the $_REQUEST super global
• In contrast to WordPress' AJAX actions, requests that are not marked as private apply to both logged-in and not logged-in users (priv vs. nopriv).