nathraiben

(sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems).
And that’s exactly what happened here…

Renamed my plugin folder, reset permalinks to default, set permalinks back to custom – everything still working.

Renamed the folder back, started activating one plugin at a time, as soon as the links no longer worked, I deactivated the last plugin – still NOT working.

Reset permalinks, entered custom permalinks – still NOT working.

Renamed the offending plugin’s folder, reset permalinks, entered custom permalinks – everything back to working like a charm.

So it seems it’s that one plugin, and like you wrote it’s still causing problems even after deactivating it…

Thanks so much, esmi! I was about to get rid of WP alltogether and go back to hand-scripting (which would have taken a year or two with the puny 5-hours-a-week I’m left with as spare time :D).

Now I just have to take apart the plugin and look for the offending bit of code.

Hey esmi, thanks for your reply.

Yes, it does – and it works perfectly well with EVERYTHING but the pages… ??

Okay, I’ll take that as a “tough luck, no WP for you”? ??

I’ve never experienced any performance issues with using %category% first, but of course I’ve also tried different permalink variations. Sadly, not even the standard settings (Day and name, Month and name, Numeric) work.

Only thing I can do right now to get my pages to display is going back to default, and of course that’s not really an option. Then I’d rather go without pages at all. ??

Thanks again, but I already did that, too (#4). ??

Didn’t really think that would change anything, anyway, since if it was a file permission problem, posts shouldn’t work, either. But the strange thing is, permalinks really work on EVERYTHING other than the pages. :/

Hello t-p and thanks for the reply! ??

Yes, I did. Sorry for mixing up terms (that’s what you get for posting at 4AM :D), that’s what I actually meant with #8 (though I also did de-activate widgets and other layout non-standard layout elements). Actually, even tried a couple of themes, to no avail.