title: How to get $_REQUEST[] through URL in wordpress
body: <p>Hi I have a problem in my site on which am working on localhost. I am using pretty urls in my localhost.I have custom page templates for all the sites every page has a different header and footer and the content in it.</p>
  
  <p>I used </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="btn_container"&gt;&lt;a href="issues/?page_id=1038" class="btn_1" title="Food"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="btn_container"&gt;&lt;a href="index.php?cat=155" class="btn_3"  title="Health"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The Problem I have to get request parameters in wordpress and query the db against these request query string parameters. And also it does not route to this page template.</p>
  
  <p>I have hard-coded URL like in the above divs.  </p>
  
  <p>Please help</p>