Event Edit Changes Link

Hi tymwiseman,

I’m not sure what you mean. Can you be a little more specific and provide and example?

Thanks,
Jonah

Thanks for the quick response Jonah…

The site is https://www.aafcleveland.com/

If you click the event ‘Brown Bag Series – Design Thinking’ you will see that it goes nowhere .. simply because I changed ‘Register Here’ – to ‘Please Register Here’ page text.

Any changes breaks the event links:

https://www.aafcleveland.com/events/

As you can see – on this page as well (link above) – the Brown Bag event gives a 404 and takes you back to the homepage.

Please help, I appreciate ti!

Checking in – can someone please take a look at this?

Thank you…

Hi tymwiseman,

Have you tried deactivating all other plugins and/or reverting to the default WordPress theme to see if that helps? I would suggest trying that first. Let me know how it goes. Also, what version of the plugin are you running?

Thanks,
Jonah

Hi Jonah,

I did try this, and tried it again – no change. I originally hoped that there was a plugin conflict – but it doesn’t seem to be the case at all.

Plugin version is: Version 2.0.11

i appreciate any further help you can provide – thank you…

So how would permalinks be affected if you changed the file in anyway? Again – this is a simple change – like adding a period to a sentence…

If I change the permalink settings back to default (https://aafcleveland.com/?p=123) The events work fine, but once I customize ie /%post%/ or /%category%/%post%/ – it doesnt work… and I have edited the htaccess file as well for permalinks:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Any thoughts appreciated.

More ….

If I change any details of an event, when I click that event from the homepage:

https://www.aafcleveland.com – it redirects me to the homepage…

If I go back to the event I changed – and modify the slug, it functions again.

https://www.aafcleveland.com/event/may-professional-development-luncheon-push2/

I added a 2 to the end of the slug – and that page works now. Otherwise – it wouldn’t.

Hi tymwiseman,

What specifically are you using in the Permalinks settings that is causing the problem? %post% is not a valid tag to use so that might be the problem. See here for the tags you can use: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

– Jonah

I am using %postname% – sorry that was a typo….

What I was trying to identify – is that when the site is NOT using permalinks – the links work just fine. When I use – /%category%/%postname%/ the link breaks – if a change is made to the post.

When I make a change to the post – it changes the slug or link in a way that makes it unreachable.

If you go to aafcleveland.com now, and click on Brown Bag Series – Design Thinking – you will see exactly what I mean.

If I were to turn off a custom permalink structure – it reaches the page just fine.

A bad link, to a page or event that doesn’t exist – will take you to a page like this:

https://www.aafcleveland.com/event/jonahcanfixit

A solution has to be there somewhere – changing content in a post shouldn’t change the slug – I believe that is the focus – my guess it would be changing something in the database at the same time that breaks the link.

I appreciate your help.

Hi tymwiseman,

Hmmm, I’m not seeing this issue on my end. I changed my permalink structure to ‘/%category%/%postname%/’ and went and edited an event and nothing changed with the link – it still works fine. This must be something related to your installation, plugins, theme or server configuration. What type of server are you running the site on? Would you mind providing me access to your administration so I can see this in action and confirm deactivating plugins or switching the theme does not work? Please email to pro [at] tri [dot] be, reference this thread and attn to me.

Thanks,
Jonah

Hi Tim,

I just logged in to your website and deactivated all other plugins and the event links then work fine. So, it’s an issue related to one of your active plugins. You’ll need to go through one by one to figure out which one it is. Please let us know which one so we can see what we can do to fix the issue.

Regards,
Jonah

Hi Jonah-

Did you specifically try the Brown Bag link from the home page? The links overall work great, the only links that don’t work are the ones that are edited once they are posted.

Can you please confirm?

The link to test currently is the Brown Bag link from the home page..

I appreciate it.

Hi Tim,

Let me try that now…

Hi Tim,

The links in that widget no longer show when I deactivate all other plugins. My guess is there’s a PHP error on the page due to having a plugin deactivated that’s called somewhere on the page. You’ll need to troublehsoot this and get it so the events link is still there with all other plugins deactivated. And then see if it works. Let me know how that goes.

Thanks,
Jonah

Ok, I can look at that.

The problem still occurs on the Events listing page if you are trying to test it.

https://www.aafcleveland.com/events/