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6:54 am
December 12, 2011

julienramel

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Hi,

I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, or if there is more settings to use pretty url's….

For example my program page has the url (simply in a page named “program-2011″ )

/program-2011

all good, but when I click on a speaker name it brings to

/program-2011/?subject=lineup&_year=2011&artist=2

is there a way to improve or customize the way it looks ?

I specially get rid of “artist” that my clients will not like for this project, guess I can do that by looking for the parameter passed with the plugin…. but indeed I'll prefer a

/program-2011/speakers/2011/the-name-of-the-speaker.html

cheers

julien

12:23 pm
December 12, 2011

Top Quark

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Post edited 12:24 pm – December 12, 2011 by Top Quark

Hi Julien,

Unfortunately at this time, that’s what the URLs look like. I don’t have pretty speaker URLs in there. I’m in early planning stages on version two of this plugin which will actually make the speakers a custom post type. When that happens, we’ll get the pretty URLs. I don’t have plans on making pretty URLs before that.

I know, I hate those too. The “artist” is remnant code from when this plugin started as a way to manage performers for a music festival.

The URL is set as a $smarty template variable, so you could at least change it from artist= to speaker=, but then you’d need to do something in add_action(‘init’) to set $_GET['artist'] if $_GET['speaker'] is set. You could approach it like this:

add_filter(‘Smarty_Instance_resource_name’,'my_Smarty_resource_name’,10,2); function my_Smarty_resource_name($resource_name,$args){ $smarty = $args[0]; // a reference to the $smarty object

$ArtistURL = $smarty->get_template_vars(‘ArtistURL’);

$ArtistURL = str_replace(‘artist=’,'speaker=’,$ArtistURL);

$smarty->assign(‘ArtistURL’,$ArtistURL);

return $resource_name;

}

You can actually use the above filter to completely hijack a given Smarty template, in which case you could approach creating your own pretty url system. See http://topquark.com/blog/2011/…..ource_name for some info on that. But that seems like it might be a lot of work. I don’t know how much resources you have for this project.

Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you at this point. Version 2 is still months away.

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