Title: [Plugin: Custom Permalinks] Stop working with WordPress 3.1?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Custom Permalinks] Stop working with WordPress 3.1?

 *  [justpaulo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justpaulo/)
 * (@justpaulo)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-permalinks-stop-working-with-wordpress-31/)
 * I love this plugin, but now with the WordPress 3.1 update the permalinks of the
   categories stop working… Why? its just me with this problem?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/)

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 *  [wookiecalling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wookiecalling/)
 * (@wookiecalling)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-permalinks-stop-working-with-wordpress-31/#post-1933365)
 * Hey there Justpaulo,
    Had the same problem as you did, managed fixing it this
   way..
 * 1. Disable ALL plugins
    2. Log into your server via sFTP/SSH/FTP and find your.
   htaccess file in the directory of the wordpress installation. 4. rename or back
   up 5. Go back to wp-admin and visit your permalinks page. enable custom permalinks
   with /%postname%/ 6. reactivate plugins
 * This seemed to fix the issues I was having with permalinks.
 *  [Hamster69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamster69/)
 * (@hamster69)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-permalinks-stop-working-with-wordpress-31/#post-1933417)
 * Custom Permalinks stopped working for me too upon upgrade to 3.1. Found that 
   differences in the permalink code in wp-includes/canonical.php were the problem,
   specifically the section of code beginning with
 * `// These tests give us a WP-generated permalink`
 * and ending before
 * `* Attempts to guess correct post based on query vars.`
 * Copying the code from that section found in the previous upgrade of WordPress
   wp-includes/canonical.php and pasting it into the WordPress 3.1 wp-includes/canonical.
   php fixed the problem. I now have a full clean, working WordPress 3.1 install,
   save for this one edit, and all my plugins function correctly, Custom Permalinks
   works perfectly.
 * While I wouldn’t suggest just splicing code for every upgrade (obviously, eventually,
   it’ll cause more problems), maybe someone with more programming experience than
   me can look at the differences in the code in that section to see precisely what
   changed, and why it could have caused conflicts. I’m posting this because it 
   gave me fits trying to fix the conflict and none of the other suggestions worked,
   but this code tweak did.
 *  [ndayakar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndayakar/)
 * (@ndayakar)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-permalinks-stop-working-with-wordpress-31/#post-1933431)
 * [@justpaulo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justpaulo/),
 * I too have the same problem. The **custom permalinks plugin** is not working 
   with WordPress 3.1. I am getting the following message in safari when a custom
   permalink of a category archive is accessed.
 * > Too many redirects occurred trying to open “http://example.com/category/sub-
   > category-2/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open
   > another page which then is redirected to open the original page.
 * [@wookiecalling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wookiecalling/) and [@hamster69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamster69/),
 * Tried your solutions, but it didn’t resolve the issue. 🙁

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 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [ndayakar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ndayakar/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-custom-permalinks-stop-working-with-wordpress-31/#post-1933431)
 * Status: not resolved