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They just charged my credit card an automatic renewal fee. Not surprisingly, I was surprised, I haven’t used the software in quite a while, deleted it from the site. No notice, just boom, an automatic charge on the credit card.
There’s been zero response to multiple emails. Nothing. Nada. Just took my money and no recourse.
Going to initiate a chargeback I guess. People that do this kind of thing….just unbelievable.

Resolved via kludge :).

We’re going to do this:
on a 404 we’re going to call a script. If the page pretty-page-url is called it’s going to look in the wp_posts table for a page where the title field is “pretty page url’ (though case insensitive). It will then grab the page id, and with that information it will display index.php?page_id=ID.

In otherwords, we’re going to do the mapping ourselves. I appreciate there are reasons wordpress does this the way they do – but frankly, it’s wrong. Rationalize however you like, in the end permalinks don’t work for large numbers of pages. It should be seamless, it’s not – it crashes and burns. (and the answer is not ‘modify user behavior ?? ).

Shane, perhaps I’ve misunderstood, but I think that’s just the regular permalink .htaccess structure. And the problem is that works fine for 100 pages, but does not work fine for 1000 pages.

Mercime, that’s a solution but very manual intensive. I’m looking to do this across a number of sites, some of those sites will have 10K to 50k pages. And I need to automate it, otherwise it becomes unmanageable. We’re already touching these pages way more than we should – it’s hugely labor intensive.

I was thinking that I might just do this. Write a script that dumps all the pageid’s out to a database, onetime. then write a 404 error script that takes the pretty page address and maps it to the wordpress page id. In otherwords, bypass the wordpress page redirect. I’ve used this on other non-wordpress sites and it works fine. Not sure why wordpress doesn’t do something like this – I’m sure it’s technical – but I’m a bit astonished that a platform as big as this has a feature so widely used, that doesn’t work for more than a couple hundred pages.

In any event – is there any other solution other than the cludge I’ve suggested?

Thank you shane! I appreciate the assistance.