Subject says it all. I'm kind of freaking out. Please help
Please Help!! Changing Page name/permalink results in "redirect loop" error (14 posts)
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danwoodson
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What was the original permalink? And what are you trying to change it to?
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Posted 1 year ago #The original permalink ended in "whos-who". I re-wrote the page in a separate testing page. Once the testing was done I changed the original page's permalink to "whos-who-2010-08-16" then tried to change the testing page's permalink to "whos-who" to replace the old/original page. For some reason I couldn't edit the testing page's permalink, so I copied the new code to the original page and changed it's permalink back to "whos-who". Now I get a redirect error. I can guess why it's doing this, but what's the solution?
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Suggestion: Copy the content from one of these posts into a plain text editor such as NotePad. Then delete both posts. Navigate to the Trash in your Admin area and delete them from the Trash.
Finally, create a completely new post and copy in your content. That should (in theory) sort it all out.
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Posted 1 year ago #Also: When I click "view page" from the page editor, the page it tries to pull up "whos-who-2010-08-16" even though the permalink says "whos-who".
To the moderator helping, does that still fit in with your delete/remake idea? I'm concerned about other places in the site linking to the page I'm going to delete
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Posted 1 year ago #deleting and remaking doesn't change anything. Somewhere the db is associating "whos-who" with "whos-who-2010-08-16"
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What permalink structure are you using? Have you tried resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If that works, set your custom permalink structure back up again.
Sometimes WP's rewrites can hiccup and cause problems.
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Posted 1 year ago #To be totally honest, I'm a web development intern. I don't usually use wordpress, but my company does. I haven't had any problems (other than wp inserting <p></p>s in all my scripts) so far. I was working on this page on my own (not assigned to me) and just totally broke it. I have no idea about permalink structures, but I can learn really fast if it'll help. I just wanted to back up the old page.
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Posted 1 year ago #If there are other good wp forums, let me know and I'll post this over there too...
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There's WP Tavern but that tends to be more technically-orientated than here.
You can check your current permalink structure via Settings/Permalinks.
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Posted 1 year ago #:) I just registered at WP Tavern. Okay, I'll check the settings
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Posted 1 year ago #It's a custom structure using "/%postname%/"
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Posted 1 year ago #Is there anywhere in the directory structure where I can view the actual pages?
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No. WP stores your posts & pages in the database - not as files. Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If that works, then review Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.
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