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Thanks for the reply and sorry for the bump.

What would be most helpful if you have it is a link to a tutorial or syntax reference for .htaccess. Much as I’d love for you to write this for me (and you probably will before all is said and done), I’m just learning how to use .htaccess redirects so I might need to tweak this.

What might not be clear above is that the proposed redirect was placed in the .htaccess for the directory /topic-x/ and in that way applied to “everything” but everything in the /topic-x/ directory.

I’ll doctor and test the code and may come back crying for more, but let me just make sure I’m clear here:

# I think this is how I add remarks and therefore:
# Turn on rewrites.
RewriteEngine on

#This means re-write everything?
RewriteBase /

#This sets up the conditions of the rewrite. If I needed to add .info #or .biz or whatever, I would use (site1.com|site2.biz|site3.org)
#and remove \.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?(site1|site2|site3)\.com

#I have no idea what this does.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#Or this ...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

#Rather than being put in the topic-x directory, this assumes that the #code is in the root, so ^topic-x(.*) means everything on every site #with topic-x in the URL goes to the target-site with the same string #following. I'm not sure what R=301,NC,L means.
RewriteRule ^topic-x(.*)$ https://target-site.com/topic-x$1 [R=301,NC,L]

Maybe I put this in the wrong forum?

I’m going to mark this as resolved because if I think you’ve answered the question. Unfortunately I think I’m too weak to execute the solution.

I found this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-mu-domain-mapping-going-to-the-homepage-and-not-the-sub-dir-blog?replies=14#post-1775892

But I’m too inexperienced to figure out what the heck I’m supposed to do.

The documentation is empty.

Well, you pointed in the right direction in a way. WP did think there were 2 copies. Some way on another there were multiple redirects from listings.php to listings.php-1. I have no idea where they came from but I deleted them and all is well.

Hmmm … if I knew what to call this problem I might be able to search the forums for a solution.

Any further suggestions?

Just for fun I created a file called listings.php-1 and uploaded that. It still shows as 404.

If you’re talking about just emptying the trash in Posts and Pages, I’ve already done that.

As far as I can tell the problem only occurs when I insert:

<?php
require('wp-blog-header.php');
?>

Great tip …

I wonder how to empty my trash?

I have a managed server with Plesk on GoDaddy.

Failed Solutions:

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling all my plugins one by one. I tried uploading the files I downloaded. It’s frustrating because I know the system is working but something is failing in my admin interface.

Possible cause:

This morning my site was loading impossibly slowly, so I started by downloading all my plugins via FTP. Then using FTP I deleted all my plugins. Then one by one I loaded them back up until I found out what the likely culprit was.

I eliminated the plugin which was killing the site everything runs like a charm. Unfortunately, since then the popups don’t work on Upload/Insert as described above.

A fellow Godaddy user recommended that change wp-config to add
define(’WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Just after * @package WordPress
*/

I tried it …

No luck. So I bumped it up to 96M … still no change.