remove_rewrite_tag() │ WP 4.5.0

Removes an existing query tag, for example %postname%.

Array elements are removed from three properties of the WP_Rewrite class:

WP_Rewrite::rewritecode
WP_Rewrite::rewritereplace
WP_Rewrite::queryreplace

1 time — 0.00002 sec (very fast) | 50000 times — 0.07 sec (speed of light) | PHP 7.0.5, WP 4.5

No Hooks.

null. Nothing.

remove_rewrite_tag( $tag );

$tag(string) (required): The name of the rewrite tag, for example %postname%. Basic list of tags:
%year%
%monthnum%
%day%
%hour%
%minute%
%second%
%postname%
%post_id%
%author%
%pagename%
%search%

Suppose we added a query tag '%mytag%' and at some point we need to remove it:

remove_rewrite_tag( '%mytag%' );

Since 4.5.0

Introduced.

function remove_rewrite_tag( $tag ) {
	global $wp_rewrite;
	$wp_rewrite->remove_rewrite_tag( $tag );
}