handmade links redirecting to homepage?

  • lucabrasi40

    (@lucabrasi40)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Handmade links means that I made the links to an internal page using the WYSIWYG editor (for clarification).

    What I did:

    I copied all the text from my homepage into a new page (titled test page) so I could play around with it and hopefully make the homepage better.
    I thought I had improved it, so I renamed my original homepage (bak( and then renamed the test page to the original name. I gave it the same slugs, I went to Settings > Reading and selected it as a static page.
    But the links do not work. Now well over half of the links I made by hand do not work, however, all the links in my WP generated navigation work and so do the links in my plugin generated html sitemap.

    I went to my permalinks and set it to custom /%postname%/ but that did not fix it. They worked perfectly before my haphazard attempt at improvements.

    I hand make all the internal links to keep away from plugins, so if I can’t repair this it is going to be a quite a few hours to fix this. I can also restore from a backup but I would really would like to know how I botched this thing up.

    I also don’t want to lose the new homepage and I don’t know if the html is bad so I am leerious of another cut and paste job.

    What is the recommended course of action for this kind of foul up.

    Thanks for considering my question

    Edit:
    when you hover over a link, it shows the URL in the lower left hand corner of the browser. those links are right, they are just being improperly redirected due to my hack and slash improvement methods.

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  • Thread Starter lucabrasi40

    (@lucabrasi40)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    I just restored from before I got up to all the homepage monkey business and that copy of my site has bad links too.
    So I don’t know when this happened.
    I know they worked when I put made them.

    Anyway, all that stuff above is irrelevant. sorry for the confusion.

    Does anyone know of a possible cause.

    I have a redirect plugin. I checked the links in that by clicking on them, they go to the right pages. However, the same url from a link in a post goes to the index page.
    Also, not all of the links are redirected to the homepage, some still work properly.

    Edit:
    I just searched for the redirection plugin I am using. It is no longer listed here. So I searched by author name. It didn’t find anything either
    author=Fakhri Alsadi
    plugin=SEO Redirection

    but it still has a page off of wordpress.org

    Does this sound like it could be my problem. The redirects are not working. I consolidated a bunch of shorter posts on similar topics. I didn’t want to lose the links so I redirected.

    Could it be the redirect plugin that has done this or is there something else I can check before redoing all the links in my posts.
    …..
    I didn’t receive anything telling me it needed updating or anything. Maybe that only occurs if the author updates. perhaps this just isn’t compatible with the new WP version or something.

    Thread Starter lucabrasi40

    (@lucabrasi40)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t know what is going on but I am going to get rid of the Redirect plugin completely and go through the posts one by one to fix any messed up links.

    Please DISREGARD.

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