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Question How to process a page with custom URL and parameter?

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andrew_zol

New Member
Hi, I'm new to the Elementor. And I believe that's will be an easy question to answer for exports, however I didn't find any information.

How do I create a page with custom URL parameter with elementor? For example I need to create a page with url /person/(personId) and wan't to display on this page elementor widget displaying info about person with give personId. I know that there is a url rewrite possibilities in WP, but I didn't find how to get this working along with Elementor.

Thank You,
Andrew
 
sms-design

sms-design

Member
Some more information about version of

  • wordpress
  • elementor free/pro
  • widget
  • theme
  • Web browser
  • OS mac/pc/linux

Screenshot or site url may help people answer your questions.
 
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andrew_zol

New Member
My environment is:
  1. Elementor v2.7.5
  2. Elementor Pro v2.7.3
  3. WordPress 5.3
 
sms-design

sms-design

Member
Still not clear on what you are looking achieve what's the purpose of the website, there are many ways to get the custom url
 
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andrew_zol

New Member
Probably I don't understand how does custom urls works in Wordpress.
Let me describe. Let's say I have a number of persons stored in my third-party system, I access them through Rest API in my WP plugin.
I developed a Elementor Widget that can query my API and retrive person info by person Id.
What I want to do is to create a Elementor template (which contains my widget) which will serve /person/(personId) urls to display person.

What I can do by default is just to create a /person page, but I need one template serving a lot of differerent persons.
Thanks for your help. Feel free to ask me any question.
 
sms-design

sms-design

Member
If you think of your personid as an author_id you could looking into using get_author_posts_url()

This may help as well

 
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andrew_zol

New Member
No, personId is not related to Wordpress, this is Id of some entity stored in another system. Here is what I did:
Code:
function rewrite_init(){add_rewrite_rule('/person/([0-9]+)?$', 'index.php?tag=person_page&order_id=$matches[1]', 'top');
}
add_action( 'init', 'rewrite_init' );
function person_query_vars( $query_vars ){$query_vars[] = 'person_id';
    return $query_vars;
}
add_filter( 'query_vars', 'person_query_vars' );
.

And then in my widget I do the following to retrieve person_id:
Code:
get_query_var('person_id')

But unfortunately when I flush permalinks cache and try to open for example /person/123234, I'm getting redirected to /person/ (correct page where widget is, but without parameter).
I suspect that I do something wrong in add_rewrite_rule. Because it is not supposed to do a redirect, it should just do a url rewrite, maintaining all query_vars.

I hope I explained it more or less well :)
 
sms-design

sms-design

Member
Andrew I would suggest SO (stackoverflow) or maybe this plugin could answer many headaches.

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/participants-database/ which I used as a quick access solution for a company of 500 people who need to know first-aiders / fire marshalls / People on site etc etc

Also used it for a simple lead generator interface on tablets for trade shows connected to website held on Samsung Note4 phone at the show.

Without fully understanding your widget and purpose try the above
 
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andrew_zol

New Member
Thanks for the answer, by "person" I meant not only persons, it could be any data stored in another system.
As I said I already have the system which stores all the data I need to display. Anyways, thanks, I'll be searching what I do wrong.
 
sms-design

sms-design

Member
StackOverflow as long as your explanation is good you will get excellent feedback, you could try FB Elementor Community there are a few good devs / and GIThub Elementor Devs.

But from my experience StackOverflow.

But maybe this https://gist.github.com/carlodaniele/1ca4110fa06902123349a0651d454057

Would be interested to see what it is your working on if it's going to be public.

Regards
 
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