Weird issue with a single post

What is your site url?

https://www.vgcuts.com

The troublesome post is https://www.vgcuts.com/flashback

Site is clean of malware! I am at loss.. Maybe someone else has some insight on the matter

I just tried giving that post a different URL and it worked. So there’s something about the URL ‘flashback’ that is causing this problem. Something wrong in the database?

Do you have a page, category or tag with the same title?

No, but I’ve just noticed another problem that must be caused by the Yoast SEO plugin – media are getting weird permalinks. For instance, the featured image for a post’s permalink is https://www.vgcuts.com/donkey-kong-64/donkey-kong-64-2/ and if I go to that link I get redirected to the homepage (because it would be a 404, and I have 404 redirection enabled).

Gah. Someone help.

I’ve now tried deleting the post and re-creating it entirely, but it still will not access on that slug.

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

– switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

Okay, turns out it was a global redirect on my web host’s server that prevented any of their websites from having a ‘/flashback’ URL.

Weird, huh?