Add URL Rewrite Rule To Wordpress

When you do this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L]

This means: "if it's not a file, and if it's not a dir, redirect all incoming URLs to index.php.

Your rewriterule should work... unless you've put it after the previous rewriterule. So, in short, are you sure your .htaccess it like that:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>    RewriteEngine On    RewriteBase /    RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /deal-info/?id=$1&post_name=$2 [L]    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule>

Please tell me if it works.

Moreover if you only want to redirect only deal-info, you should do something like (not tested):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>    RewriteEngine On    RewriteBase /    RewriteRule ^(/)?deal-info/([^/]*)/([^/]*)$ /deal-info/?id=$2&post_name=$3 [L]    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</IfModule>

Two hints:

Please try to use the RewriteLog directive: it helps you to track down such problems:

# Trace:# (!) file gets big quickly, remove in prod environments:RewriteLog "/web/logs/mywebsite.rewrite.log"RewriteLogLevel 9RewriteEngine On

My favorite tool to check for regexp:

http://www.quanetic.com/Regex (don't forget to choose ereg(POSIX) instead of preg(PCRE)!)

May I ask you to add the rewritelog in your question?

After much confusion I found an answer here:https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5413/need-help-with-add-rewrite-rule

Though I think the proper way to do it is by:http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API/add_rewrite_rule

I'm not sure if you can do this directly in htaccess, or I was having a conflict problem with another plugin I was using.

Thanks again to Olivier for his extensive answer!