goingveggie

Whew! I found a really simple fix on this forum (via Google of all things) that helped me. It’s from a member not a moderator. Thanks, Reginator.

“…I’ll pass along what got my blank pages, posts and permalinks working again. I was trying to use just /%postname%/ as the permalink structure but when I did the whole Permalink Settings page went blank, along with my website. Then after noodling around I did the following and it worked:
1) Went to phpmyadmin and deleted /%postname%/ from permalink_structure in wp_options. (This brought back my Permalink Settings page in WP)
2) Set Permalink Structure to Month and name.
3) Used Custom Permalinks plugin to set my posts link structure.”

Happy Blogging!

Reginator,

Thanks so much for your suggestion to remove the offending label in the permalink_structure file in the wp_options table of phpmyadmin. For EarthLink host users, this is found under the MySQL Databases portion of your control center. This got me back to where I could at least have the ‘ugly’ permalinks back and my web pages. I am going to post this on another thread that seemed to be needing the same fix.

Thanks, jm300 for noting that it may be our host (Earthlink) that hasn’t supported the Apache mod_rewrite since 2007 and therefore not supported the pretty permalinks.
I, too, had read every post possible and done all the recommended suggestions for getting back my posts before I came upon this helpful post. I will attempt some manual fix, even if it’s rebuilding.

Also, a shame that no WordPress moderator stopped by. Perhaps they log this one under “beyond help” and don’t bother with it. Thanks to the community for finally figuring this out.

Comments welcome as I don’t relish rebuilding in this manner.

I just upgraded to WP 2.7 and had the same issue of not being able to open a new or edit an existing post. After perusing the forums, it seems that the plugins are at fault. I disabled all plugins and turned them on one-by-one. In my case, PodPress v 8.8 was the only one causing the error. Perhaps this will help anyone else with the same issue.