Wildcards

Use wildcards to match groups of similar URLs. For example, only show the Drip widget on the "/blog" subdirectory of your site.

Here's an example of a URL containing a subcategory: 

https://drip.com/blog

The “blog” subcategory contains a number of blog posts. To reference every single blog post contained in that subcategory, apply a wildcard to the URL.

Here's an example of a wildcard for the “/blog” subdirectory: 

https://drip.com/blog/**

There are two kinds of wildcards:

• Single asterisk(*)
• Double asterisk(**)

Single Asterisk Wildcards

The single asterisk matches an individual URL segment. 

For example:

•  ".../blog/*" matches ".../blog/basic”
• But  ".../blog/*" does not match “/blog/basic/123".

Double Asterisk Wildcards

The double asterisk(**) wildcard matches one or more URL segments. 

For example, "/blog/**" matches both:

•  "/blog/123 
• “/blog/category/marketing/1234".

Mix Wildcards Together

Here are a few examples of how to mix wildcards together:

• Use the single asterisk(*) wildcard in the query string
  • For example: /blog/**?s=* matches any page under the blog subdirectory with the query string parameter set to anything.
    • /blog/**?s=* will work for both:
      • “../blog/category/marketing/?s=1234”
      • “../blog/category/?s=1234”
    • /blog/*?s=*
      • Will work for: “../blog/category/?s=1234”
      • But it will not work for: “../blog/category/marketing/?s=1234”

• Phrases wrapped in square brackets, [ ], are interpreted as Regular Expressions, which helps prevent encoding your links. 
  • For example, we will translate `https://drip.com/[(help|support)]` into "https://drip.com/(help|support)" instead of encoding it to something like “https://drip.com/(help%7Csupport)”

• Phrases wrapped in parenthesis, (), can be used as an OR condition where | acts as the  “or”.
  • For example, you can use `https://drip.com/(help|support)` to target either/both of these pages:
    • https://drip.com/help
    • https://drip.com/support