Change the “page” slug in pagination

Simple question. When pagination is activated, the URL changes to "site.com/page/2". For my site, this should be "site.com/paggetto/2".

How can I change that rewrite rule? I also want to change "author" and other variables.

Answers:

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Method 1

For some sites in German I use the following plugin to translate page to seite (the German word for page):

<?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
/**
 * Plugin Name: T5 Page to Seite
 * Description: Ersetzt <code>/page/</code> durch <code>/seite/</code>.
 * Author:      Fuxia Scholz
 * License:     MIT
 * License URI: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 */

if ( ! function_exists( 't5_page_to_seite' ) )
{
    register_activation_hook(   __FILE__ , 't5_flush_rewrite_on_init' );
    register_deactivation_hook( __FILE__ , 't5_flush_rewrite_on_init' );
    add_action( 'init', 't5_page_to_seite' );

    function t5_page_to_seite()
    {
        $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->pagination_base = 'seite';
    }

    function t5_flush_rewrite_on_init()
    {
        add_action( 'init', 'flush_rewrite_rules', 11 );
    }
}

Note that you flush the rewrite rules on de/activation only. You will need a separate rewrite rule in your .htaccess to redirect old URLs to the new ones:

RedirectMatch Permanent ^/(.*)/page/(.*) /$1/seite/$2

Method 2

Figured out:

function re_rewrite_rules() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    // $wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
//  print_r($wp_rewrite);
    $wp_rewrite->author_base        = 'autor';
    $wp_rewrite->search_base        = 'buscar';
    $wp_rewrite->comments_base      = 'comentarios';
    $wp_rewrite->pagination_base    = 'pagina';
    $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
add_action('init', 're_rewrite_rules');

At least, that will do the job.

Method 3

This function will work directly with your translation package, formatting your new base and prevent to run more than once the flush_rewrite_rules function avoiding bad performance of your blog.

function my_change_rewrite_base() {
    global $wp_rewrite;
    $bases = array(
        'author' => __('Author'), 
        'search' => __('Search'), 
        'comments' => __('Comments)', 
        'pagination' => __('Page')
    );

    foreach ($bases AS $key => $base) {
        $wp_rewrite->{$key} = remove_accents(mb_strtolower($base));
    }

    if ( ! get_option('my_change_rewrite_base_flushed', false) ) {
        flush_rewrite_rules();
        update_option( 'my_change_rewrite_base_flushed', time());
    }
}
add_action('init', 'my_change_rewrite_base');

Method 4

The following worked for me:

function nw_strana() {
    $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->pagination_base = 'strana';
}

add_action( 'init', 'nw_strana' );

function nw_rewrite( $rules ) {
    $new_rules = array(
        'obchod/strana/([0-9]{1,})/?$' => 'index.php?post_type=product&paged=$matches[1]',
    );

    $rules = array_merge( $new_rules, $rules );

    return $rules;
}

add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', 'nw_rewrite' );

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