Pages Have Redirected to Uploaded Media
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Hello! I have suddenly developed a weird issue where what used to be full pages with text and images have redirected to media attachment pages, I’m having this problem with basically all of the pages linked from here: https://eastlinetheatre.org/production-archive/
I think it is only loosely linked to the gallery being used because even when typed in directly, it still leads to the media attachment page. i.e. https://eastlinetheatre.org/archive/anna-in-the-tropics/ I think it may have to do with the ‘Gallery Custom Links’ plug-in but I’m really at a loss as to what to do and I’m feeling the fear that the pages have been lost forever. I tried deactivating the plugin but still had the same issue.
The media displayed was the first image used on the original pages that are no longer displayed.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
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Hi @eastlinetheatre,
As you mention, the pages themselves redirect to the attachments, for example, https://eastlinetheatre.org/archive/men-on-boats/ redirects to https://eastlinetheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/men-on-boats-scaled.jpg, so it is indeed not an issue with the production-archive/ page, but a more general one.
It is possible that disabling the plugin Gallery Custom Links does fix the issue, but because your browser remembers the redirect from when you tried it with the plugin enabled, it appears as if the issue is still there.
So my recommendation would be to disable the plugin again, and try it with another browser you have installed (Firefox, Google Chrome, etc). If you don’t have another browser, you can also try it with with this site: https://www.proxysite.com (enter https://eastlinetheatre.org/archive/men-on-boats in the Enter URL field and click Go).
If it shows the actual page, disabling the plugin did fix the issue. If it shows the attachment, than the issue is indeed not related with that plugin, and lies elsewhere.
Ok, so the redirect might be “stuck”. To verify this you could use a plugin that shows all currently-active redirects, like Redirection, or another from this list: https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/redirect/.
Once you installed the plugin, you should be able to check if there are any active redirects for the affected pages, and delete the unwanted redirects.
If that works, you can then delete the plugin you installed if you no longer need it.
Unfortunately even with all plugins disabled it’s still happening. Not sure what my next steps should be. I have noticed that some of the links lead to the attachment pages and some like https://eastlinetheatre.org/archive/the-vibrator-play/ lead to 404 pages
The error ones I can access the edit pages for them, the ones that redirect to images attachments I cannot.
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