Page Navigation on 2.3 upgrade gone haywire?

  • I just updated to WordPress 2.3.1 from 2.2.2 and my page navigation has gone haywire. If I’ve got multiple pages of posts, the first page displays fine, but then the rest may or may not display–get the 404 page.

    If there are five pages, maybe four will display, but the last won’t. On another query maybe the first three pages will display and the last two will not. There is one place where things work fine–calling the query from the home page. But the exact same query called from a category page will not execute the page navigation properly. They are all strictly category queries as follows.

    <?php query_posts($query_string . ‘&cat=’ .$cat. ‘&orderby=date&posts_per_page=5’)?>

    If I set the $cat instead to say 4 instead of having it called, again, everything is fine if called from the home page, but not from the category pages.

    The urls all displays correctly …./page/2 …/page/3, etc, but get the 404 error.

    Deactivating all plugins did not improve things.

    The funny thing is I’m testing the exact same site with 2.3.1 on another server where all is fine.

    Any ideas?

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  • Thread Starter ThaiClimate

    (@thaiclimate)

    Well it seems I’m back in the permalink dungeon. The only way I could get page navigation to work again was to resort to the default permalinks. I’ve tried all the tricks regarding removing, rewriting the .htaccess file, but still the same problem. It’s ugly urls until this is fixed I guess.

    Any updates out there on the permalink page navigation issue. It was working in 2.2 no problem, but not 2.3. Will check the host’s forum to see if any help there as well.

    I had this exact problem when I upgraded and it drove me nuts. Finally I found this post.
    Basically they changed something with the permalinks and your site might be issuing never ending queries. There’s a one line plugin on the page that disables the feature and if this is the problem, it should give you your old links back. Hope this helps, I really do. This thing ticked me off, hehe.

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