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faking the funk, invisible slugs - shawn_a - 2013-05-21 I have been thinking about having slugs that dynamically output data from a plugin for various things, this is a pattern we use frequently. Search output, blogs, category excerpts, galleries, anything dynamic. I am not sure how some plugins do this, maybe I missed something obvious. But I believed there are 2 options but both boils down, you make a page where you want this to show up, basically a fake empty page, then you stick a inline shortcode in there to insert your plugins content, or the plugin uses a content filter which throws junk in your sidebar if you use getcontent, or it replaces global content on index-pretemplate hook. The page creation is usually left as an exercise left for the end user. Most I have used involved a fake page sitting in your pages. To have a completely fake page that does not exist you can do this. ( I beleive ) THIS WOULD ONLY WORK v3.2.1+ PHP Code: <?php edited to fix var names,thanks angryboy discuss RE: faking the funk, invisible slugs - Angryboy - 2013-05-21 This is so simple, yet so effective! Honestly, it'll save a LOT of junk page creation. Just change the properties you've got there: metak to just meta and template_file to just template (they didn't seem to work for me otherwise). Will definitely implement this on the Message Board plugin. Thank you very much for this, shawn! RE: faking the funk, invisible slugs - shawn_a - 2013-05-21 The downsides, you will have to update it with other fields as they are added to core if you want to, I can modify index to accommodate missing ones in the future, also we assign all these to globals, so there is some confusion as to which are used where a global or data_index, which has been adopted by a lot of components and plugins. So we should make it standard one of these days. Also there is the issues of menus and breadcrumbs and headers possibly not working, I am looking into all the possibilities to make this an official method of slowing dynamic slugs or making a new hook for it specifically. For things that use page cache it's possible to add your dynamic slug into it for site maps etc. I just have not looked at it all yet. As far as metad and template_file these are right out of index.php. So maybe we should alias them to match the globals or make a new global object of page variables. RE: faking the funk, invisible slugs - Carlos - 2013-05-21 Very interesting. Note that this will not work with GS versions before 3.2.1. RE: faking the funk, invisible slugs - shawn_a - 2013-05-22 Oh yes, sorry, i have updated the main post with that and the fixed varnames |