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1. deanhatescoffee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've recently discovered that the tags on my site aren't working anymore. I've used UTW for a few months without a problem (once I got it up and running, anyway) until this. I'm not sure what caused the problem so I installed the latest version of UTW, unfortunately, to no avail.

   What happens is that when I click on a tag, it doesn't pull that tag's posts; instead, it simply shows all posts.

   As I write new posts from the WP backend, I notice this error (usually right below Suggest Tags, but sometimes above that part, though always below the writing box):

   Can't load wp-config.php (located in "/home/deanish/public_html/wp-content"). You must put this plugin in your plugins directory ("/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/").

   (see a screenshot - http://deanish.com/utw-error.png)

   I've never seen that error before, but I suspect it may be the culprit of all my woes. Notice it says "/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/" - that's not where my installation is (it's actually on my root).

   I've recently switched themes, but when I switched back to my old one it still didn't work. Any ideas? Thx all~

2. deanhatescoffee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've disabled all of my plugins (aside from UTW) and have determined that it's not a plugin incompatibility issue. I've discovered that UTW actually does work... kinda. Go to http://deanish.com/index.php?tag=blog-tools - you can see that UTW still works, pulling the posts with the "blog-tools" tag, but it breaks the theme for some reason. Now go to http://deanish.com/tag/blog-tools (the "pretty" URL, which is set to function properly on my backend) - it just ignores the tag and pulls all posts.

   I don't know if this is a theme issue or not, but any help would be much appreciated. :)

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You're using an incompatible permalink configuration (just "%postname%") . Not all permalink possibilities lend themselves well to other plugin's permalink insertion methods. This is a known issue, without a known cure.

4. deanhatescoffee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   My permalinks are set to /%category%/%postname%/ - at least, that's what it shows in my backend...

   I realize there's an issue with just /%postname%/ which is why I know not to use that structure. ;)

   Where are you seeing that my permalinks are set to /%postname%/? How can I fix it? As far as I can tell, they're set up the way I described above - see http://deanish.com/posts/apology-accepted-a-spam-story/

5. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   My mistake, you are using category as well, I missed that.

   Nevertheless, that is still incompatible with the pretty "tag" permalinks. I'm not entirely certain why, exactly, nevertheless it's pretty well documented on these forums.

6. deanhatescoffee
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for your replies, Otto. I worked with Nathan Dove on a workaround for that (but, apparently, the header still gets 404'd even though the content is correct): http://wordpress.org/support/topic/65370

   What's weird is that it was working fine until just the last few days.

   I'm willing to change my permalinks at this point, so how can I fix it? What exactly is it that my permalinks need but don't have?

7. Toucouleur
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I ust send a reply on this topic to notice to whome who are not able to retrieve their tags because of the lenght of their post, you can add a small patch described here : http://my.opera.com/Toucouleur/blog/ultimate-tag-warrior-droit-internet

   If you have Request-URI Too Long : The server will not process the request because its request URI is too large.

   It's the solution for you

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