[NSFW] Single posts show in search results and back end, but give error 404

  • Resolved silente08

    (@silente08)


    4 months, 1 week ago

    On my website, I use several custom post types (via ACF). For several months everything worked smoothly, but today Google notified me that it could not crawl one URL of a custom post: https://boys-love.de/serie/gen-y. The post can be normally edited in the back end and shows in search results (https://boys-love.de/?s=Gen+Y&id=276&post_type=serie) and All Posts (https://boys-love.de/serien). But when opening the link, I now get an error 404. The same goes for https://boys-love.de/serie/gen-y-season-2.

    There are 100s of posts of this type (and other types), which all still seem to work fine. I cannot see a reason why these two suddenly “disappeared” (a few days ago they were still visible). So far, I have tried to

    • temporarily change the post URLs
    • refresh the permalinks
    • empty the page cache
    • clean my database
    • deactivate and reactivate select plugins

    No success. Does anyone have ideas what could be the cause of the problem? After all, most posts work fine, so there seems to be no general incompatibility or database error.

    • This topic was modified 4 months, 1 week ago by silente08.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    If you are using ACF plugin, I recommend asking at https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/advanced-custom-fields/#new-post so its developers and support community can help you with this

    Thread Starter silente08

    (@silente08)

    So you think it has to do with ACF? I didn’t think so, that’s why I asked here. There is more than 1000 custom posts (all set up the exact same way) and so far these are the only 2 with this problem.

    I’d take a random guess that it’s a plugin issue somewhere along the way. It may not be ACF and could be another plugin that’s active on the site (or even some code in the theme). The best way to test that is to disable plugins and test with a default theme (easiest to test this on a staging site if you have one).

    Thread Starter silente08

    (@silente08)

    Oh, thanks for pointing me back to the plugins! I thought I had deactivated all relevant ones, but turns out it was Filter Everything … Apparently, using “gen” as a URL variable for that plugin causes issues with URLs containing that exact string, which is why only these two posts are not working. I will change the URL variable then and mention the problem in the FE support forum!

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