htaccess and Pages problem?

644 sounds right to me. It doesn’t sound like a .htaccess problem either.

Do you have any formatting that is specific to pages in page.php? (i.e. Is it different to index.php?)

One thing you could try is to temporarily rename pages.php (since you said you traced the problematic statement there) and see if the page loads okay using index.php (WP will default to index if it can’t find page). If it works, then just find the discrepancy in pages.php and replace it with the code in index.php

Hope that helps.

Excellent idea, hadn’t thought of that! Now its giving me a more standard error…as if I’d asked for a private/restricted post or something. It’s a clue, at least.

Those Pages were last edited about a year ago, and they worked then fine. And honestly, I haven’t done much of anything with the site since then, other than author posts.

There are a couple of what I thought were minor html formatting attributes I added to index.php and archive.php earlier today that I could roll back and see if they somehow affected Pages behavior…?

But I’m going to eat first b4 investigating further. I’ve been at this too many hours ;). I’ll report back when I find something. Thx again!

well…I rolled back the two minor formatting tweaks I put in the code (adding a couple of
‘s in sidebar.php, and a &nbsp in archive.php) but clicking any of my Pages still gives me the “Edit this entry” link which leads to a blank post page in the admin console. This even though the link itself shows the correct path to a Page when rolled over. Something’s getting mangled somewhere, though all I’ve been doing otherwise is messing with CSS… Can bad css mangle code?

Here’s the conditional statement from page.php that is throwing up the ‘Edit this…’ message. As commented, I once replaced letters with arrow characters. It worked like this for the past couple of years. Is there anything that could be causing my current problem?

<?php get_header(); ?>

	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post">
		<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<div class="entrytext">

<!-- modded the_content() text to characters........................................... -->
		<?php the_content('<p class="serif">&raquo;&raquo;&raquo;</p>'); ?>

		<?php link_pages('<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

			</div>
		</div>
	  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link('Edit this entry.', '<p>', '</p>'); ?>
	</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

big DOH! here…found out what was going on. I noticed the Pages associated with a category that I can’t delete (id=1) but don’t want to use, and therefore had made invisible a few months back…

Sorry for the hot air…