You don’t want to use that work-around, trust me. 4.2.3 introduced a critical security fix that affected the shortcode system, and yes some plugins that were using it wrong to begin with are now broken, but re-doing your links is far less of a pain that having your site exploited by a publicly known security vulnerability.
What plugin were you using for the shortcodes?
I installed Short Codes Ultimate. Never had a reason to use it.
How do I redo my links? My pages work fine, it is just the posts. I cannot even get them to open from the post edit page.
I did change one of the titles in order to shorten it and help with SEO. Still did not fix the issue.
I thought of deleting the post altogether and then recreating it. However, I am not sure if the html has stuff in it that is a short code or not.
They won’t even open from edit page? That seems odd. Let’s find out what’s causing that first.
Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.
If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).
Well, after your first post, I deleted all my posts and then created them again. That did not work. I de-actived all plugins. That did not work. I changed themes, first to 2014, then tried three others. None of this worked.
Today in response to your last post, I activated the plugins, then tested. Then deactivated and tested. I have tried 2013, 2010, the new Weaver, Build, and none of these work. I have not reactivated the plugins.
I am really frustrated now. Any other thoughts
Ok, what is the “that” that did not work?
https://seniorsaversnetwork.org/blog/is-medicare-advantage-a-money-saver/
This shows the error I get when I try to click on ‘more’ link from the Blog Page (my Home page is a static page). Same error occurs when I click on View Page or Preview Changes from inside the edit page.
Ok, if you could just share the error next time, it would cut out a lot of the back-and-forth. š
ERROR 404 – PAGE NOT FOUND!
Try re-saving your permalink structure at Settings/Permalinks in your admin panel. If WordPress cannot automatically edit the .htaccess file, it will provide manual instructions after saving.
I have been doing this daily… every time I changed the theme. I go through every one of the settings to make sure something did not change, and save them.
Here is a link to where the Toolset guys are posting.
https://wp-types.com/forums/topic/types-shortcode-breaks-after-wordpress-4-2-3-autoupgrade/page/2/
If you scroll down you will see where they believe the code is causing the problem.
(I resaved the Permalinks again, just to be sure.)
That won’t affect permalinks, like https://seniorsaversnetwork.org/blog/is-medicare-advantage-a-money-saver/
If you were using shortcodes to make links, something the *security* upgrade in 4.2.3 now prevents because that’s not how shortcodes were meant to be used in the first place, then links themselves would break, but permalinks like https://seniorsaversnetwork.org/blog/is-medicare-advantage-a-money-saver/ would still work.
So, that has absolutely nothing to do with why https://seniorsaversnetwork.org/blog/is-medicare-advantage-a-money-saver/ is a 404.
You’ll have to contact your hosting provider to ask if mod_rewrite is currently installed and active on your server.
Got it fixed. The problem was with the Custom Permalink having an extra /. Once I deleted it, everything worked. Your last post gave me the clue
James, I am experiencing a similar issue and have literally gone through the same troubleshooting as Beloveds (i.e. Rewriting .htaccess file, disabling all plugins and I am simply using the 2015 theme).
I’m unable to change the permalinks to anything but the standard settings (which is no bueno for SEO).
I’ve tried editing the .htaccess file to:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>
…as it suggests, but to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and I would love to buy you a coffee for it my friend.
htmlfriendly.com/blog (i’m apparently PHPstupid.com :p )
That’s a very different issue. Would you please open your own thread about it?
https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform
