VinnieJT

at this point, this is seriously ruining a lot of my business income, probably losing clients tomorrow because im going to just tell them to F off I just designed the site for wordpress and this isn’t my problem, and making me seriously rethink my career.

i can’t even find my ticket on trac, i don’t think anyone ever replied to it.

nope

that didn’t work either

wow.

wordcamp – they happen in many cities and are very good, informative wordpress brainstorm conferences, i went to boston’s previous one.

https://central.wordcamp.org/schedule/ for list of locations/dates

they usually throw you a schwag bag full of stickers and ads and free credits etc depending on sponsors, and theres a few nice “W” wordpress stickers included

ok, I think I figured it out

guy had moved his site ANOTHER time before this, thus when I did the find and replace in the DB it only changed the single previous wordpress install location, guy had about 400 pages/posts so I didn’t see that until I looked through all of them. So I did the find and replace for the other previous wordpress install location and it seems to be working fine, will confirm again after I finally fix the other things.

Changed htaccess, everything worked fine after the change, went to update a page and blog post permalink still broke.

I have a couple of ideas I will try out as well.

For instance, when reading this: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

I see in the database that it has some old URLs from previous locations of this blog (another directory and also even was a wordpress.com blog before that)

I will try to get the database URLs to align with each other.

Meant to post this before but never finished…sorry…

im like 99% sure it was that htaccess (but that isn’t what your theory suggest I think), but let me double check tonight I will re-try these steps.

Plain wordpress htaccess is what it is after:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

1-no did not work
2-not working still
3-worked after this step
4-worked after this step
5-didn’t work after this step

nope, no dice there

updating a page or post or publishing one breaks permalinks

Ok, i think i figured out what’s up all along

Time time with the fix, I didn’t include the trailing slash at the end of my custom permalink, which made the blog posts work now. I am seeing something in the htaccess in the above directory that indexes are off so this would make sense.

I will do, when it’s fixed and next week because im in the middle of traveling trying to finish this correctly.

Permalinks broke again. Not sure what triggered this. Going to try the fix again.

Also I read something else about bluehost but didn’t have time to go thru all the topics. This is a wordpress installation inside a directory which is inside another directory but there’s no other WP installations.

I’m wondering if it’s because of this other thing with this template and maybe at least a couple others. The reading setting is set to front page displays posts. I added a code in a blog.php template to pull the posts so it works like this instead. I doubt it matters but who knows.

Can some super duper admin help me out to post there? I have at least 5-6 similar examples of this.

In other examples I have to include the ?page_id= at the end of my permalinks for those to work. When I started using WordPress a few years back I had no real issue with permalinks, this has all been within the past 1-2 years. The more I think about it, the more it’s actually closer to 50% of hundreds of WordPress installs with custom permalink malfunctions (default always works, but I do a lot of SEO). Out of those hundred(s), I can count on two hands the number of times it worked correctly without any extra work outside of WP admin.

No Actually i’m sorry for the confusion

This fix works modified.

I set to default, like he says in the previous step, but continue to use the same permalink structure I wanted, with no issue whatsoever. Then I replace with the original rewrite.php file in wordpress to remove the php errors.

What is this bug tracker you speak of? I just googled and found it – looks confusing lol.

So I just tried to login with my same credentials as the forum and LOL It doesn’t work.

WHY ME?! ?? *sigh*

i just fixed it….

https://www.kevinworthington.com/how-to-fix-permalinks-in-wordpress-when-all-else-fails/

For the win, again.

Edit: This is definitely something with WordPress.

Double Edit: Or so I think…i really may never know.