{"id":19024349,"date":"2026-09-20T00:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/media-details-return-404-with-plain-permalink-structure\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T00:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T00:50:59","slug":"media-details-return-404-with-plain-permalink-structure","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/media-details-return-404-with-plain-permalink-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Media details return 404 with \u201cPlain\u201d permalink structure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Impressive plugin already, congratulations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When WordPress is configured with the default <strong>\u201cPlain\u201d permalink structure<\/strong>, opening media details from the grid view results in a 404.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plugin requests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63?context=edit<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <code>context<\/code> parameter should be appended with <code>&amp;<\/code> because the URL already contains a query string:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63&amp;context=edit<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Changing the WordPress permalink structure to <strong>\u201cPost name\u201d<\/strong> fixes the issue immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tested on a fresh WordPress installation without other plugins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-19024349","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/19024349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19024349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}