A Full List of WordPress URL Rewrite Rules – A Completed Guide

By | September 24, 2020

If you plan to create a custom url rewrite url in wordpress, you may need to know current url rewrite rules in wordpress. In this tutorial, we will list all of them.

How to list all of url rewrite rules in wordpress?

We can add example code below in your theme functions.php

add_action( 'wp_loaded','my_flush_rules' );
function my_flush_rules(){
    $rules = get_option( 'rewrite_rules' );
    print_r($rules);
}

Run this code, you will get a list of rules.

A full list of wordpress url rewrite rules

They may be:

Array
(
    [cat/(.+?)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [cat/(.+?)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [cat/(.+?)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [cat/(.+?)/?$] => index.php?category_name=$matches[1]
    [post/tag/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?tag=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/tag/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?tag=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/tag/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?tag=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/tag/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?tag=$matches[1]
    [post/type/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?post_format=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/type/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?post_format=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/type/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?post_format=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/type/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?post_format=$matches[1]
    [.*wp-(atom|rdf|rss|rss2|feed|commentsrss2)\.php$] => index.php?feed=old
    [.*wp-app\.php(/.*)?$] => index.php?error=403
    [.*wp-register.php$] => index.php?register=true
    [feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?&feed=$matches[1]
    [(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?&feed=$matches[1]
    [page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?&paged=$matches[1]
    [comments/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?&feed=$matches[1]&withcomments=1
    [comments/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?&feed=$matches[1]&withcomments=1
    [search/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?s=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [search/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?s=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [search/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?s=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [search/(.+)/?$] => index.php?s=$matches[1]
    [post/author/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/author/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/author/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?author_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/author/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?author_name=$matches[1]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&day=$matches[3]&feed=$matches[4]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&day=$matches[3]&feed=$matches[4]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&day=$matches[3]&paged=$matches[4]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&day=$matches[3]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&feed=$matches[3]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&feed=$matches[3]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]&paged=$matches[3]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&monthnum=$matches[2]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/([0-9]{4})/?$] => index.php?year=$matches[1]
    [post/.?.+?.html/attachment/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]
    [post/.?.+?.html/attachment/([^/]+)/trackback/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&tb=1
    [post/.?.+?.html/attachment/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/.?.+?.html/attachment/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/.?.+?.html/attachment/([^/]+)/comment-page-([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&cpage=$matches[2]
    [post/(.?.+?).html/trackback/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&tb=1
    [post/(.?.+?).html/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/(.?.+?).html/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/(.?.+?).html/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/(.?.+?).html/comment-page-([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&cpage=$matches[2]
    [post/(.?.+?).html(/[0-9]+)?/?$] => index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&page=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/attachment/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]
    [post/[^/]+.html/attachment/([^/]+)/trackback/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&tb=1
    [post/[^/]+.html/attachment/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/attachment/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/attachment/([^/]+)/comment-page-([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&cpage=$matches[2]
    [post/([^/]+).html/trackback/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&tb=1
    [post/([^/]+).html/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/([^/]+).html/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/([^/]+).html/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]
    [post/([^/]+).html/comment-page-([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&cpage=$matches[2]
    [post/([^/]+).html(/[0-9]+)?/?$] => index.php?name=$matches[1]&page=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/([^/]+)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]
    [post/[^/]+.html/([^/]+)/trackback/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&tb=1
    [post/[^/]+.html/([^/]+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/([^/]+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]
    [post/[^/]+.html/([^/]+)/comment-page-([0-9]{1,})/?$] => index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&cpage=$matches[2]
)

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