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1. Anonymous
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have searched for this and found people with similar problems but nothing quite the same. I recently switched from blogger to wordpress, an haave a redirect from blogger with an .htaccess file that gets the blogger post and finds the similar post on wordpress. Everything works fine, except I can;t seem to search for archives.

   I creative a dropdown menu of the archives, when on is selected, like jan 07, it just goes to the homepage. I can't figure out what is going on. Has anyone else and this problem. I apologize if this has been covered in another thread but I looked for an hour and couldn't find an answer.

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   An mistkae made often with blogger archives: did you delete the physical archive files like "jan 07" etc. from your server?

3. Anonymous
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   not that I know of. when i do the archives dropdown, there are post numbers that show up next to the post month, it jsut doesn;t navigate there. Any chance it could be my permalink structure? I am using jsut the post name...

   If I were to view archives for say january 07, what would the url be to view this so I can test?

4. Anonymous
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok I think i know the problem. The redirect code automatically strips out the year/month/ from the url because I am matching the old blogger posts to the new wordpress posts so I don;t lose my page rank. So when I try to go to the archives like http://www.quarterlifeparty.com/2008/03/ it takes out that last part with the date and just goes to the homepage. I haven;t tested this yet by taking out the redirect code but I'm pretty sure this is the problem.

   So, do you know if it is possible to make a redirect code in the .htaccess file that would compensate for this?

5. elanaspantry
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i'm having a similar issue and it seems to have just happened with the most recent WP updates to 2.6.1 - any solutions?

6. elanaspantry
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I figured it out! uncheck 'Disable the date-based archives' in the Robots Meta plugin options...

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