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1. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Donncha. I have had problems with my category dropdown for a long time. When I check the widget to use dropdowns, they work just fine, but after a while they stop working, I don't get the pretty permalink that I use (of course I can't remember the permalink structure now) and the index is loaded. A couple of days ago I suddenly made a possible link with WP Super Cache (I couldn't imagine it had anything to do with any problem :-) ), I deactivated the plugin and the dropdown still works after a few days. I just use the standard WP category widget, no plugin, no hacks or anything. Do you have any idea why caching a certain category page would break the permalink?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

2. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   He Donncha is online, let me try to catch his attention.

3. donncha
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Sorry, I don't know why it doesn't work.

4. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Anything I can try? It's not WP related, since I've noticed it since 2.5. I use post-id/postname for permalink, I haven't tried if it makes a difference if I use another one (but I don't really want to either). Does a permalink get cached with the page?

5. upgradetravelbetter
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   I'd like to chime in with similar issues using Super Cache 0.8.8 on WP 2.7.

   I've turned off the plugin for the time being. While 0.8.8 was running, when a category was selected from the pulldown, it would no longer redirect to the preferred category structure. In other words, instead of opening
   http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/category/airfare/
   it would open
   http://www.upgradetravelbetter.com/?cat=57
   as a link. There would be no redirection to the desired link architecture.

   As an added bonus, the content of the ?cat=57 link would not actually be the /category/airfare/ content. ?cat=57 would display the homepage's posts, without regard to category.

   I have turned off 0.8.8 for the time being and am considering rolling back to an earlier version, to see if that works better. I was having other (related?) issues with 0.8.8 and 0.8.7, in that expired pages weren't being deleted. I've searched the forums and have seen others reporting similar problems, but I haven't found any solution that works.

   Any ideas?

   Thanks for all your help, and the work you do on this and other plugins, Donncha!

6. Gangleri
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   Well, it seems the problem occurs when a cached page expires (or is deleted automatically?) and only when I use the dropdown, when I use a category link from a post, things are just fine. Like the previous responder says, the link goes to default instead of "pretty" and fails to load.

7. upgradetravelbetter
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I believe I've solved this. I created a separate "sandbox" installation of the site and tried to duplicate content, plugins, etc. as much as possible. I compared the .htaccess files between the two sites.

   In the version of the site that wouldn't handle dropdown categories properly when super-cache was running, there was junk in the .htaccess file. Some (all?) was left over from a plugin I had uninstalled a few weeks ago. (It was the Subscribe to Comments plugin, fwiw.)

   I deleted this from the first line of .htaccess:

   AddHandler application/x-httpd-php4 .php

   and then removed this, which appeared twice:

   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*p=.*
   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*wp-subscription-manager=.*

   Knock on wood, things are working again. For example, /?cat=57 now correctly redirects to /category/airports/ and displays the proper content. Yay.

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