Weird issue

Ok, I finally figured out that this is a fruitless exercise. I tried changing the number of parms, so it wasnt the third parm and no matter what I did, it always ended up the same. So, instead of my URLS doing this:

http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha/

They now do this:

http://www.guitarnewsdaily.com/vendors/amps/yamaha.html

And they work great. I still wish I knew WHY it was doing the above, but I’ve now worked around it.

It is neither a custom post type nor taxonomy. I dont have any special rewrite rules in the .htaccess.

I add a rewrite rule for this: ‘vendors(/?.*)?’ just so wordpress doesnt send me to the 404 page. Then, I use a filter for “template_include” where I check the URL. If the first section of the url is “vendors”, I then send them to my Vendors template.

All of my work then happens in the vendors template.

The issue seems to be if the url ends in “/”, and is not a direct hit on an existing url, it is doing a keyword search on the last parm in the string and redirecting to that article.

By changing the way I do my URLS to end in “.html”, this no longer happens. I would still like an explanation, but for the moment this is working. I even just got done creating all of the 301 redirects for the 200+ urls I just changed.