Latest post becomes main blog URL

  • Here’s a weird one (and has happened twice now):

    site.com/blog/ normally opens the home page.

    The latest post, however, caused site.com/blog/ to change during resolving to
    site.com/blog/postX

    Nothing’s changed in permalinks, .htaccess file, or any other settings.

    And to add to the mystery, I have a domain pointer that in effect does
    domainpointer.com -> site.com/blog/ and it DOES open the home page and not the latest post.

    Has anyone seen this behavior before? I can strip the .htaccess WP lines and regenerate, but before that, since it’s the second time this has happened, want to do a little investigating.

    And as before (although I haven’t done it yet) if I write a new post, postY, site.com/blog/ will still resolve to site.com/blog/postX. So it’s not just picking up the latest post, but postX has for some reason gotten associated with the home URL.

    Thx,
    Gary

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  • Thread Starter gvtexas

    (@gvtexas)

    This is a WordPress error. WP is changing the redirect table to change the url for the main blog address to a specific post. As mentioned, it’s done this twice now. And now that I know what it’s doing, i can fix it, but needs reporting since it’s a WP bug (at least in my installation).

    How do users reports such things?

    There is no such known error in WP 3.0.5 despite the fact that it is being used by millions of people. 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 Twenty Ten 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.

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