title: How to remove Query Strings such as date= or author= from url in Wordpress using htaccess
body: <p>I used following htacces code for removing date= query string from the URL</p>
  <pre><code>RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (?:^|&amp;)date=(.*)$
  RewriteRule ^paivamaara/(.*)$ /paivamaara/$1?date=%1 [L,R]
  </code></pre>
  <p>its working on simple PHP file but when applied to Wordpress; its not working anymore.</p>
  <p>Please help</p>