Blog post URL no longer works

  • richards1052

    (@richards1052)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    The following URL for one of my blog posts no longer works:

    http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/01/04/tzena-tzena-an-/

    When I try to access the post I get a File Not Found error. When I look for the post within Manage it’s there & I can access the Edit version, but not the View version.

    Carthik Sharma thinks the trailing “-” might be the problem (though I know for a fact that I have in the past been able to access this post).

    Do I have any other recourse than changing the slug? And do you think that would work?

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  • abhideydas

    (@abhideydas)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    another of your post with a trailing – is not working: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/02/29/kubota-gardens-/

    so i think it is due to that and changing the post slug might work.

    Ajay

    (@ajay)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Check if your permalinks are proper. If needed, regenerate them and check.

    Try changing the post slugs as a last option.

    Thread Starter richards1052

    (@richards1052)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    abhideydas: That was a great catch. Do you know how I can search for all other post slugs that might end in a trailing hyphen?

    abhideydas

    (@abhideydas)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    i don’t know how you can search the post slugs. may be there’s a plugin.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    You’d really only be able to do this with a MySQL tool (i.e. phpMyAdmin or the like). Here’s the query to pull them up:

    SELECT ID, post_title FROM wp_posts WHERE post_name REGEXP '-$';

    Thread Starter richards1052

    (@richards1052)

    18 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Kafkaesqui. MySQL is not one of my strong suits but I think I might be able to manage it.

    What’s odd about this behavior is that the trailing hyphen slugs were created when I imported my old blog posts into my new WP blog installation. All of the trailing hyphen posts resolved correctly for quite some time after I moved my blog to WP. I’m guessing that perhaps one of the upgrades (2.0?) created this conflict somehow.

    I’ve tried using the Manage Search feature and found quite a number of the trailing hyphen post slugs. But I know there are more out there.

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