Custom taxonomy redirecting to index.php

  • I have two custom taxonomies, created using the plugin ‘More Taxonomies’, which I use to categorise blog content.

    These taxonomies used to work perfectly on this section of the site, but when I checked on them yesterday, they now seem to be directing straight to index.php instead of the taxonomy pages I have stored in the format (taxonomy-[taxonomy_name].php).

    Can anyone come up with any reason why this malfunction might have occurred? If I had changed anything on the site recently, I might have some clue as to what the trigger might be; but I can think of nothing.

    Note: I created a taxonomy.php page too, as a test, but still the site took me to index.php.

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  • If nothing changed, that shouldn’t have happened. Did you try saving your permalinks under Settings > Permalinks? You don’t need to change anything just save them – I find I need to do that when working with taxonomies – although I usually get a 404 page rather than being redirected to the home page.

    Thread Starter schrodi77

    (@schrodi77)

    Hi kwbridge. Thanks for your message.

    Yes, I’ve tried re-saving the permalinks; changing the permalink structure to every offered default option; and changing the permalinks back again.

    I am at a loss!

    Have you tried disabling plugins one by one to see if there is a conflict? I know you didn’t change anything but it’s worth trying. Also, is there a page or directory with the same name as the taxonomy?

    Hello schrodi77
    I know you have not changed anything but you can give it a try ,recreate your “taxonomy-[taxonomy_name].php” and save permalinks.Be careful there should not be any space in name.

    Thread Starter schrodi77

    (@schrodi77)

    Hi cedcommerce. Okay, I’ll try your suggestion first.

    Then I’ll try disabling plugins as you suggest, kwbridge (although I don’t think any have been installed or updated recently).

    On your second point, kwbridge: no, there are no page name conflicts and I even changed the name of one of the taxonomies today from ‘author’ to ‘blogauthor’, as I read that the former was a restricted term!

    Thread Starter schrodi77

    (@schrodi77)

    Okay, so I removed my files taxonomy-blogauthor.php and taxonomy-strand.php (obviously, the blog continues to redirect to index.php as you would probably expect).

    Then, I reintroduce these files, go to the permalinks menu and click ‘save’. However, the blog is still directing to index.php when you click on blogauthor or strand links.

    I’ll try disabling a few plugins maybe!

    Thread Starter schrodi77

    (@schrodi77)

    I disabled a few plugins which I felt were perhaps most likely to be the cause of the problem, but this didn’t accomplish anything, unfortunately. Neither did updating my plugins ??

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