gunnerman1

Thanks to this answer on Stack Overflow which is just about exactly the question I have, I was able to learn a lot about redirecting.

There is also this route to follow WP Codex example: Using Custom Templates with custom querystring example.

I could then query the information from a custom post type based on the query string provided.

Thoughts/opinions?

Thanks

Thats what I thought but I tried to have WordPress recreate the .htaccess file by deleting its contents and flushing the rules as per the instructions but it never recreates it; have to do it manually. Changing the permalink structure also does not make any changes to the .htaccess file.

I will try and remove the redirect plugin and see where I get.

Thanks

Bit of an update. I copied my server db and themes folder to my local version to ensure all of the same files existed. The local version still worked. Then I copied the plugins folder from the server to local so all plugins matched. This broke the local links.

Disabling all plugins one by one until none were activated did not fix the problem but deleting the actual plugin files did. I found when I use my local version of the ivycat-ajax-testimonials plugin everything works. When I use the server version it does not.

I deleted the server version of the plugin and uploaded my local version, still broken on the server. Removed all cache headers in .htaccess, used incognito mode, etc.

I am about out of hair to pull out 🙁

Thanks for the replies.

No, there is no provided setting in permalink section.

To answer Eric’s questions:

1. There are different plugins but any plugin that is activated on the server is also active locally. The local server has a couple more active plugins such as CM Tooltip Glossary, Interactive World Maps, Multipurpose Sliders, etc. Both are using the same theme.

2. Functions file is identical in both places. Our local version has a few utility functions but they are not registered or used anywhere.

3. Not entirely certain what you are asking but I don’t believe so. We want all of our blog posts to be at /blog/%postname%, all of our pages at top level, and our testimonials at /testimonials/%postname%. We never use testimonials in any of the slugs or names.

4. We have the standard version of Yoast SEO installed which I don’t believe offers any rewriting functionality.

5. We use the Quick Redirects plugin since we recently changed our permalink structure from /%postname%/ to /blog/%postname%/ we wanted to make sure we had the 301 set up for any straggling links in blogs we missed etc.

6. .htaccess on local site is default WordPress

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

The server side has some Cache Control entries but the problem persists even when they are removed.

Thanks

Doh trying to put a div inside p!