Dashboard: All custom post types point to regular posts

I’ve now tried two fresh installs — with the same result.

The site is in a subdirectory — it’s the primary site on the account, so I use htaccess and a rewrite rule to redirect the base URL to the subdirectory. I’ve done this before and it worked — not now. The problem seems to happen when I change the “site URL” and “home” in the General settings menu. Once I get rid of the subdirectory and attempt to enter the main URL there, all hell breaks loose. CSS disappears, and the console informs me that “jQuery is not defined” over and over on every page that I attempt to access — but ONLY on wp-admin. For the rest of the site, jquery works just fine.

If I attempt to reset the URL (in myPHPadmin, because I can’t get at the General Settings panel anymore), I get dropped into an endless signin loop. So I can’t reverse the problem — which tells me I’m missing something.

FYI, here’s the .htaccess file in the root folder (the one that points to the new subdomain):

# rule for a specific 'filepathname'
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?stillpointeros\.com$ [NC]
# exclude specific calls for the subfolder in question or for files or folders that exist in the root
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sev22/wordpress/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ sev22/wordpress/$1#

# rule for the domain root
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?stillpointeros\.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ sev22/wordpress/index.php [L]

(I left a couple of lines out of that which point to other sites — they really can’t possibly be involved.)

And here’s the .htaccess for the installation folder:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

I’ve tried commenting out the filename (!-f) and directory (!-d) exclusions in the root htaccess file. I’ve tried changing the RewriteBase in htaccess in the WP folder to the full path. No luck.

For now, I’m out of ideas.

Okay — one small mystery narrowed down.

The problem with all attempts to edit or view pages, products, etc., seems to be tied to the /wp-admin/edit.php file. No matter what parameter gets passed to the file, it displays posts.

Here’s the code in the edit.php file that I think isn’t working:

unset( $_redirect );

if ( 'post' != $post_type ) {
	$parent_file = "edit.php?post_type=$post_type";
	$submenu_file = "edit.php?post_type=$post_type";
	$post_new_file = "post-new.php?post_type=$post_type";
} else {
	$parent_file = 'edit.php';
	$submenu_file = 'edit.php';
	$post_new_file = 'post-new.php';
}

Now, my PHP isn’t strong enough to now why that isn’t working. But it isn’t.