Getting 404 Errors? Update to version 1.1.60
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If your VirtualPosts were returning 404s even when your VirtualPost config test returned records, the latest update should fix it.
I recently found and worked around an issue that was caused by plugins/themes that used the “flush_rewrite_rules()” method when is_admin() == false.
Simply put, flushing the rewrite rules should only happen when an admin has triggered it by activating, deactivating, or configuring a plugin. Some plugins and themes (Gravity Forms to name one) run a check of the rewrite rules on *every page load* for their expected rewrite rules and if they’re not found, add them, and then flush the rules.
This approach means that *every plugin author* who doesn’t want to have their rewrite rules wiped out must add them on every page load. Now, this isn’t a huge performance hit, but it would be unnecessary if others followed best practices.
Rest assured that Airpress is NOT calling flush_rewrite_rules() on every page load… it’s just calling the required add_rewrite_rule on every page load *just in case* some other plugin calls “flush_rewrite_rules()” on the “frontend”.
Hope this helps some of y’all!
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Thanks for the quick reply.
The Rewrite Rules Inspector returned this: (.?.+?)(?:/([0-9]+))?/?$’ => ‘index.php?pagename=$matches[1]&page=$matches[2] – I’m no good on RegEx (or php for that matter!) but it seems to be grabbing every URL I test.
The three virtual post URL patterns are:
^mlist/([^/]+)/?$
^mat/(.*)/?
^matlist/?$
(I had no idea what I was doing – I was just cobbling things together from your videos and this forum – I only had two pages so I don’t think I was using three all of those but I’m not sure now which ones were working).I may have had a VirtualField configuration setup (I played around a bit when I first installed and I can’t be sure I deleted it).
I’ll re-activate the plugin and do some more digging and report back or reach out via your contact page. Thanks for your help.
@chetmac This is a great plugin. It’s very useful for automating work and allowing end-users to update the website without having access to the back-end nor needing to have any WP knowledge! However, I am having the same problem. I’ve set a virtual posts page. My config is seemingly correct. I can see the plugin do exactly what I need it to do when I visit the link logged in as the site’s admin. However, when I log out or view the same page in Incognito mode, I’m getting a 404 response. Just to confirm, I am using v1.1.60
@chetmac @ccostopoulos @pledford I don’t know if I found this in the docs or just came across it accidentally but the “greediest” expression I have needs to be the last config.
Like “^(.*)/?” cannot be in front of “^team/(.*)/?” in the order of configs inside the Airpress Virtual Post section. “^(.*)/?” always has to be at the end or doesn’t work. Which actually brings me to what would be a nice feature if it could be implemented. Allow us to move around the order of configs even after they are created; because if I have to create a new one I have to delete the last config with “^(.*)/?”, create the new one then recreate the one with the greedy expression last.
I have some setup inside my functions.php as well but they cause no issues.
Btw… this is one of the greatest plugins in WordPress atm
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