Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer

Description

This is a tool to understand your rewrite rules (“Pretty Permalinks”). It is indispensable if you are adding or modifying rules and want to understand how they work (or why they don’t work).

It is only an analyzer, it does not change any rules for you. It parses the rules down to their components and shows the connection with the resulting query variables. It allows you to try out different URLs to see which rules will match and what the value of the different query variables will be (see screenshots).

This plugin was written as a tool to help answering questions about rewrite rules on the WordPress Stack Exchange.

Installation

Install via the normal way: either by uploading the unzipped file to your plugin directory, or directly via the plugin installer.

An extra item will be added to the “Tools” menu, visible if you are an administrator.

Screenshots

Display all rewrite rules and highlight captured URL parts and ignored query variables
Test URLs and see matching rules with the resulting query variables

Faq

My new rules aren’t displayed!

Did you flush the rules? You can do this in your code, or by visiting the “Permalinks” settings page.

Can you help me with my rewrite rules?

Maybe. I’m active on the WordPress Stack Exchange, where you can find many intelligent and friendly WordPress experts willing to answer your questions.

Reviews

Simple but very helpful

By ciceronepavaloi on November 22, 2023

Thanks, it helped me clarify what I was doing wrong. 🙂

Good plugins !

By Michael Revellin-Clerc (devloper00) on January 17, 2022

This plugin is really useful for specific needs. But unfortunately not maintained anymore... =/ If someone need and update version of this check this out :

https://wordpress.org/plugin/url-rewrite-analyzer

Features: - Nice and clean interface - Remove all PHP warning / notices - Update code structure - Compatible with latest WP Version - Light / Old / Dark UI

Incredibly useful plugin

By jamieschmid on June 29, 2020

Still an incredibly useful plugin after all these years. Confirming it works on 5.4.2 with blocks enabled also! I needed it to help make sense of some complex rewrites critical to our AWS load balancer distribution, this plugin was integral in my troubleshooting. It also helped me identify ways to simplify and get rid of superfluous rules being added from all over (manual rules, Redirection, other plugins etc). I'd like to see the owner update this so more people will know it's safe to use. Or if it's abandoned, someone take it over! This is a great developer resource that's probably being overlooked.

Works also with WP 5.3.2

By mumbomedia on January 17, 2020

Very easy to use. Although supposedly not tested under 5.3.2, it works flawlessly under it. A must-have for any WordPress developer

Works Great

By Kane G (second2none) on May 30, 2019

Helped me sort some issues with the rewrite rules when developing a plugin. Works fine with WordPress 5.2 and does what you need it too.

STILL working after all these years

By Natacha (chickwithbob) on February 4, 2019

Confirmed to still work 8 years later in 2019! - WordPress 5.04 A super handy little tool to test the custom permalinks mess that can be created when adding custom rewrite rules. Really handy if you are generating dynamic (virtual) pages and URLs on the fly!

Very useful

By Barry Ceelen (barryceelen) on July 27, 2017

Throws a warning if WP_DEBUG is on, other than that still a very handy tool to check your rewrite rules.

Good work

By papacoderrs on September 3, 2016

Thank you!

Old and still usefull

By kubako on September 3, 2016

Perfect tool to check custom rewrite rules

Great plugin

By PauGNU on September 3, 2016

Using the plugin with WordPress 4.4.2 works great. It's perfect, simple.

Changelog

1.0

First WP.org plugin repository release
Further code cleanup

0.5

Code cleanup
Added URL checker

0.2

Highlight non-public query vars
Highlight regex repeating groups

0.1

First version, mostly a test of my regex parsing skills