Home Page Randomly Forwarding to a Page

FWIW, I too am experiencing this auto-forward phenomena.

WordPress 3.0

A quick solution was to add a redirect on my domain to a new page that clones the main homepage, but, its only a workaround. Sounds like there is a new WordPress update that is changing the mySQL database info . . .

Hello. I also having the same problem. It started about two hours ago. I had published a page instead of a post by accident. Now entering the home page forwards you to a different portion of the site (I’ve included the links below). I deleted the page and checked and made sure the settings have not changed. They have not.

Links from menu bars and to individual posts work fine. Any help is appreciated since I have little WordPress experience.

Homepage URL:
http://www.theEastsiderLA.com

Where you end up:
http://www.theeastsiderla.com/2010/04/save-the-date-weekend-edition-10/

I’m also on WordPress 3.0 with using a Thesis theme.

I found it under “groups”.

I found a fix for this bug. Disabling Redirection works, but I needed Redirection to be active, so if you’re in the same boat, here’s what you need to do. Unfortunately you’ll need to do some editing of the plugin files, as well as some fiddling in your database:

1. The redirection problem is occurring because the plugin created a redirect when you first hit save or publish on the post/page. This means there is a row in your database that you need to remove. So either through phpMyAdmin or your favourite SQL client, log into your database and find the wp_redirection_items table (it will be wp_2_redirection_items if you’re using the Multi-User option). Under the ‘url’ column, find the one that just has ‘/’ (or if you’re on MU, it will be something like ‘/blog’). Delete that row.

2. Try going to your front page. It shouldn’t redirect anymore. If it does, then something went wrong in step 1 above.

3. Assuming it’s not redirecting anymore, here’s how you prevent this from happening again whenever you write a new post or page. Either through FTP or the back-end plugin editor in WP, go to redirection/models/monitor.php.

4. Find the following:

function insert_old_post ()
	{
		global $post;
	?>
	<input type="hidden" name="redirection_slug" value="<?php the_permalink () ?>"/>
	<input type="hidden" name="redirection_status" value="<?php echo $post->post_status ?>"/>
	<?php
	}

5. Change it to:

function insert_old_post ()
	{
		global $post;

		if ( $post->post_status != 'auto-draft' ) {
	?>
	<input type="hidden" name="redirection_slug" value="<?php the_permalink () ?>"/>
	<input type="hidden" name="redirection_status" value="<?php echo $post->post_status ?>"/>
	<?php }
	}

6. Save the file. The plugin is now fixed.

If you need a hand with any of this, or want me to do it for you, you can get in touch through my site’s contact form: http://ericnicolaas.com/contact/

Cheers,
Eric

Thank you jesussanchez for the link! It seems to have fixed the problem for me.