• Hi Jeff. Once again, fantastic plugin. In your FAQ you illustrate the use of a wildcard character in the permalink:

    You can use limited wildcards in the permalink structure. For instance you can match the url https://www.jsterup.com/some/pretty/permalink/ by entering https://www.jsterup.com/some//permalink/. You can also match the url by entering https://www.jsterup.com//pretty/permalink/ as the permalink. The only character that is recognized is the * character. It can only replace one piece of the url in between the / characters.

    I have one plugin that I’d like to disable when I’m editing any content – whether it’s a post, a page, a product, a plugin-organizer filter, etc. (This particular plugin is only useful only on the frontend.) My idea was to use a wildcard character in the permalink for any post editing page. For example:
    https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=*&action=edit would be used to match any post number (e.g. https://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=351084&action=edit)
    (Ignore URL Arguments is turned off in settings).

    Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work. Can you tell me what I’m doing wrong? Thanks again! Todd

    P.S. I’d like to offer a suggestion but I’m not sure where to do that so I’ll do it here. Would it be possible to bypass the Ignore URL Arguments setting on a case-by-case basis in the Plugin Filters? Most of the time I do want to ignore them, but there are some circumstances where it would be useful NOT to.

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Sterup

    (@foomagoo)

    “It can only replace one piece of the url in between the / characters”

    Wildcards do not work on the URL arguments. Only between one / character and another.

    I’m working on implementing your suggestion. it will take some time for me to figure out if that will work without bogging down the site Plugin Organizer is running on.

    I would also really appreciate an expansion of this wildcard feature.

    I would also like the wildcard feature improved please. Trying to do exactly the same thing with “action=edit” pages in the wp-admin area.

    Thanks

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