WP 2.0 broke my permalink structure

Resolved relativestate
(@relativestate)

18 years, 3 months ago

In WordPress 1.5, I had the permalink structure /articles/%postname%/ and a Page with a slug of ‘articles’ which acted as the Blix theme’s archives page. i.e. http://relativestate.net/articles/ showed a list of articles, and http://relativestate.net/articles/some-article/ was how you would access it.

In 2.0, this no longer works. The ‘articles’ page now conflicts with the post permalinks. http://relativestate.net/articles/some-article/ now 404s. This is strange because the permalink structure /articles/old/%postname%/ works…

Is there anything I can do to use my old URLs again?

(If you go to the site now, it will appear to work because I changed the articles Page’s slug to ‘archives’ so things would not break in the interim.)

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dylan
(@dylan)

18 years, 3 months ago

I’m having a similar problem. My permalink structure was /%category%/%postname%/ but whenever I click on a permalink, after the upgrade to 2.0 I get one of those 404 errors.

I’ve deactivated all of my plugins, on the off chance that one of them was the culprit.

In options > permalinks I set “common options” to the default position, and now my permalinks work, but I consider this a temporary fix. What should I do?

schestowitz
(@schestowitz)

18 years, 3 months ago

I am not too sure that’s the cause, but it’s worth comparing against the example at: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2169

Thread Starter relativestate
(@relativestate)

18 years, 3 months ago

Nah… Denis-de-Bernardy’s having trouble trying to customize his .htaccess beyond what WordPress generates, and I’m having problems what WordPress does after mod_rewrite does its stuff. I observe the same behavior with the URLs http://relativestate.net/index.php/articles/stuff/ so it isn’t even an .htaccess problem…

moshu
(@moshu)

18 years, 3 months ago

You may want to check out this thread on the testers list:
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2005-December/001618.html

Thread Starter relativestate
(@relativestate)

18 years, 3 months ago

Thanks, moshu… works now.

dylan
(@dylan)

18 years, 3 months ago

Moshu, that fixed it for me, too.

From http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3371 I downloaded the updated functions-post.php and
classes.php and installed them into /wp-includes/ over the existing ones.

Thanks a million!

greatbananas
(@greatbananas)

18 years, 3 months ago

I have a very similar problem. It does not work with custom: /%post_id%/%postname%/ . All the other options work fine. I upgraded it to 2.0 from 1.5.2. I have no plugins activated.

I also tried the “fix” but did not fix my problem.

jalal
(@jalal)

18 years, 3 months ago

Yeah, an updated functions-post.php and classes.php has fixed the problem for me as well!

Yay!