Title: [Plugin: Permalink Editor] trailing slash breaks permalink editor after version 0.2.7
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Permalink Editor] trailing slash breaks permalink editor after version 0.2.7

 *  [locomo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/locomo/)
 * (@locomo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/)
 * great plugin!
 * ran into an issue starting after version 0.2.7
 * with 0.2.7 I can have pages with a permalink structure that includes a trailing
   slash, but starting with 0.2.8 and into the current version 0.2.10 using a trailing
   slash results in a 404 error .. if i remove the trailing slash it works
 * love to upgrade to the most recent version to take advantage of the speed improvements
   you’ve made but i’d like to keep my URL structure consistent with the trailing
   slash ..
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink-editor/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/permalink-editor/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/36flavours/)
 * (@36flavours)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295376)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for your feedback on the plugin.
 * Just a few quick questions to help debug the issue:
    1. Are you referring to the global page permalink structure, or the custom permalink
       set on an individual page basis?
    2. Can you provide an example of the permalink value you are using?
 * Hopefully this should help debug the issue.
 * Thanks,
    Steve
 *  Thread Starter [locomo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/locomo/)
 * (@locomo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295382)
 * In my global settings, say for page permalinks I have:
    /%pagename%/
 * and this is the behavior
 * in 0.2.7 both of the following URLs work:
    [http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/](http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/)
   [http://abc.com/my-groovy-page](http://abc.com/my-groovy-page)
 * in 0.2.10
    [http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/](http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/) =
   = 404 error [http://abc.com/my-groovy-page](http://abc.com/my-groovy-page) ==
   works
 * ideally, what i would like to see happen is if the trailing slash is ommitted,
   that the url gets rewritten to include it (and not show a 404 error)
 * thanks
 *  Thread Starter [locomo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/locomo/)
 * (@locomo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295384)
 * my out of the box permalinks structures work as indicated above:
 * /%postname%/
 * [http://abc.com/my-groovy-post](http://abc.com/my-groovy-post)
 * gets rewritten to:
 * [http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/](http://abc.com/my-groovy-page/)
 *  Plugin Contributor [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/36flavours/)
 * (@36flavours)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295407)
 * Thanks for posting those examples.
 * Annoyingly I haven’t been able to replicate this issue on my development install
   of WordPress.
 * This may be an issue similar to those that others are having related to permalinks
   not correctly being regenerated.
 * One thing you can try in version 0.1.10 is editing line 88 of index.php and adding
   a parameter to the `generate_rewrite_rules()` call so the line looks like so:
 * `if ( $this->generate_rewrite_rules( true ) ) {`
 * It’s a bit of a long shot, but could I ask you to give this a quick try?
 * – Steve
 *  [amitraichandani](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amitraichandani/)
 * (@amitraichandani)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295683)
 * I was facing the same issue. I tried implementing the quick fix you mentioned,
   but it doesn’t work. Any work around to the trailing slash issue?
 *  Thread Starter [locomo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/locomo/)
 * (@locomo)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295690)
 * [@36flavours](https://wordpress.org/support/users/36flavours/) .. tried your 
   fix but no luck
 *  [harrisonca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harrisonca/)
 * (@harrisonca)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295735)
 * I seem to be facing the same/similar issue as well.
 * If my custom permalink contains a trailing slash, I get a 404 error no matter
   how i access the page.
 * If I remove the trailing slash from the custom permalink, then both URLS (with
   and without trailing slash) then work.
 * How do I set a custom permalink with a trailing slash but WITHOUT a file extensions
   like: /laws/CA/
 * I have a reproducible case on my development blog. Would be happy to give access
   to help figure this out.
 *  [harrisonca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harrisonca/)
 * (@harrisonca)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295736)
 * I don’t think it is a flushing issue with the cache. I tried saving the post 
   as well as saving in the Settings->Permalinks page to force the flush. I also
   tried editing the index.php file with the fix mentioned above. None seem to work.
 *  [harrisonca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harrisonca/)
 * (@harrisonca)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295737)
 * This isn’t the cleanest of code, but it seems to have solved my issue, hopefully
   not introduced new ones.
 * Main problem was that get_post_by_custom_permalink function seemed to always 
   remove trailing slash when trying to lookup custom permalinks. So it is no real
   wonder why trailing slash permalinks are never found.
 *     ```
       /**
       	 * Fetch a single post based on the custom permalink value stored as custom
       	 * meta data.
       	 *
       	 * @param string $permalink
       	 */
       	function get_post_by_custom_permalink( $permalink, $exclude = false, $suffix = '' )
       	{
       		$post = false;
       		if ( $front = $this->front() ) {
       			$permalink = str_replace( $front, '', $permalink );
       		}
   
       		// Fetch all the public post types to lookup against...
       		if ( $post_types = get_post_types( array( 'public' => true ), 'names' ) ) {
       			if ( $posts = get_posts( array(
       				'post_type' => $post_types,
       				'meta_key' => '_' . $this->tag . $suffix,
       				'meta_value' => $permalink,
       				'posts_per_page' => 1,
       				'exclude' => $exclude
       			) ) ) {
   
       				$post = array_shift( $posts );
   
       			} else if ( substr( $permalink, -1 ) != '/' ) {
       				// Lookup with a slash appended, just in case...
       				$post = $this->get_post_by_custom_permalink(
       					trailingslashit( $permalink ),
       					$exclude,
       					$suffix
       				);
   
       			} else if ( substr( $permalink, 0, 1 ) == '/' ) {
       				// Lookup without a slash prefix, this is the ideal behaviour
       				// however the above is required for backwards compatability.
       				$post = $this->get_post_by_custom_permalink(
       					ltrim( $permalink, '/' ),
       					$exclude,
       					$suffix
       				);
   
       			} else if ( substr( $permalink, -1 ) != '/' ) {
       				// Lookup with a slash appended, just in case...
       				$post = $this->get_post_by_custom_permalink(
       					trailingslashit( $permalink ),
       					$exclude,
       					$suffix
       				);
       			}
       		}
       		return $post;
       	}
       ```
   
 *  Plugin Contributor [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/36flavours/)
 * (@36flavours)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295740)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve taken a look at your modifications and made some alterations to the plugin.
 * Could you try using the development version and see if this works for you as 
   expected?
 * [http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/permalink-editor.zip](http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/permalink-editor.zip)
 * (The version number shown in index.php should be 0.2.11)
 * If this works, I’ll tag and release 0.2.11.
 * Thanks,
 * – Steve
 *  [harrisonca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harrisonca/)
 * (@harrisonca)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295741)
 * It does work, however we are missing a checking case. I don’t know the code too
   well, but it seems like before if let’s say it was looking for path like: /abc/
   def
 * This current dev version would check:
 * /abc/def
    /abc/def/ abc/def
 * The currently released code checks:
 * /abc/def
    abc/def abc/def/
 * But not the case /abc/def/
 * So i’m not sure whether it is necessary to keep the case to check for “abc/def/”.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/36flavours/)
 * (@36flavours)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-permalink-editor-trailing-slash-breaks-permalink-editor-after-version-027/#post-2295742)
 * Hello again!
 * Thanks for testing that out.
 * I’ve made some additional alterations to the plugin, but haven’t had a massive
   amount of time to sit and think about it.
 * The dev version should now check:
    /abc/def/ (forced to have both slashes) /abc/
   def abc/def abc/def/
 * I’ve tested very briefly, but not extensively. There is also some additional 
   support for utf-8 characters, which I hope hasn’t caused any bugs to creep in.
 * – Steve

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