Permalinks permanently not linked

  • I was running a multisite installation with about 8 sites on the network, but with a redesign we’ve cut down on the number of sites to 2. We were using sitewide tags, of course, to bring the blogs into the main site.

    So, we killed the 6 blogs we were no longer using, knowing that their posts were still safely on the main blog, where they (presumably) could pick up their respective categories (formerly site names) and still be right where they’re supposed to be.

    Well, they are on the archive pages, and on the post edit page. But clicking on the link for the posts themselves gets you a 404 page not found error.

    New posts are fine. They’re correctly permalinking to blog/year/postname, but the old posts are permalinking to category/postname, and there’s no way I’ve found to change it. It won’t let me edit the permalink from the post edit page. My htaccess file seems to be working fine. I tried the permalinks moved permanently plugin, but that only got it caught in a redirect loop. Tried a couple other permalink plugins, too with the same result. I’m totally frustrated.

    Any ideas?

    And one more thing — when I change the permalinks to the default, the old posts just go to the blog mainpage. When I try to make it custom, that’s when it goes to the 404 page.

    I’ve actually recreated all the posts on the main page, but any post from an archive page that isn’t on the main will be a problem. Here’s a link to one.

    I’d deeply appreciate finding a solution to this, as I don’t relish having to redo several hundred posts by hand. Yuck.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Thread Starter nunziarider

    (@nunziarider)

    Here’s a new discovery. The posts actually exist on the correct permalink, eg, if I type in what should be correct URL for a post I haven’t already fixed, like, aworldofprogress.com/blog/2011/name-of-post, it will go to Name of Post’s post page, and there it’ll be. But the archive pages or the main page or the edit page — wherever there’s a link to the page, it’s the wrong permalink, eg, aworldofprogress.com/name-of-post or aworldofprogress.com/somecategory/name-of-post.

    I’d really love finding a workaround or a fix for thise.

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