Blog URL Issues – Please Help

What’s your server running? (Could this be a apache mod rewrite screwup?)

When did this start happening?
When was the last time this site worked properly? Can you access a unix shell? If you can, and you know when this started screwing up, find files with a modified date close to that time, maybe right before. This may help.

What happens when you access the admin section?
What when you edit a post and select to ‘view’ it?
Does the problem occur then as well, or only when you view the site as a user?

This could also be a problem in a filter that happens as your post content is shown- or a link is being shown- this is likely if your wordpress admin section is working without problems.

If your link to view post from the wordpress admin ‘edit post’ section works fine- but your audience (wordpress frontend) website section is screwed up- test this:

switch the theme template
do the links work now? them something is funny with your theme code, likely some function.

Server is running Apache version 1.3.39 (Unix)

We tend to do sitemap.xml’s 1-2 a week. The sitemap.xml we ran for June 29th, 2010 was normal. I ran it yesterday to submit some recent changes and that is when it went from being normal to over 900+ new blog URLs with odd characters.

The site appears to work fine. We just have an abnormal amount of URLs all pointing to the same pages that were not there before.