Upgraded to 2.5, now pages don’t display…WTF?

I think we should wait for WP 2.5.1
…

Is that all we can do?? Come on WordPress – help.. I’m not changing my hosting !!

Unfortunately there has been nothing but silence from the WP team on this issue, even though I logged a defect and posted here about it, and even though there are many of us who have experienced the issue.

The silence is deafening ??

Hi good people,

I encountered the same problem and got 404 instead of category pages which was bad.
I had the “advanced permalinks” plugin installed- I deactivated it and now using the default WP2.5 permalinks option and it works fine so far.

I’m still digging around my website looking for problems, will report if I find any.

If it helps you in anyway to take a look this is where https://www.thewidelens.com

I hope this helps at least some of you- it was very frustrating indeed.

Tal

I am having the same problem. We are on Apache and were using custom permalinks.

Every page returns the 404 not found page.

It is also not listing the categories (though oddly it will list the number of posts per cat, go figure)

I can say that we had upgraded from 2.3 to 2.5 so I don’t know if that makes a diff.

I do recall a slight hicup when I upgraded in that the upgrading database page popped up twice. I thought it had to do with skipping a few upgrades, but now I am not so sure…

I’ve been getting this same thing with my development version (local hosting) on which I create themes and test various things. Haven’t dared to upgrade my online version after noticing this behaviour.

This began after upgrading to 2.5, and I did everything said on the upgrade guide(s).

But I can see it definetly is something caused by the permalinks. When using “(possible /index.php/) category > postname”, no pages display. But when switching to “year > month > day > postname”, pages work flawlessly. Tried with two databases, and the other database was a backup before the 2.5 upgrade.

It’s good that it works with some kind of a permalink structure, but I’d prefer the “category > bla” instead of a “date > bla”. :/

Hi,

I am experiencing the same problem with my blog https://www.alain-bazot.fr/

As you can see, all the posts work fine, but all the pages deliver a 404 error message !

Like you, I have just upgraded my WP from 2.3.3 to 2.5.

I used the “almost pretty permalink” (/index.php/%postname%/) structure and it worked properly when I blogged with WP-2.3.3 !

My config : Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch4

Is WP2.5.1 coming soon? lol

Goog night ??

Hey everyone, same issue here. I upgraded from 2.3.3 to 2.5 and now my pages are returning a 404 error page. My posts were working fine, it was just an issue with the pages. I am using a custom permalink /index.php/%category%/%postname%/.

Once I changed the permalink to the default, the pages were working again.

This wasn’t an issue with the previous version so I’m not sure why it’s an issue now?

I found a solution and posted it in the bug tracking tool of WordPress.

May be you can test it and use it before WordPress gurus include it in the next version…

Hope it can help!

Best regards

Hi everybody,

just writing to let others know that this fix worked for me.
The permalink structure I’m using is:
/index.php/%postname%/

Good work dlo!

Hi there,

This fix worked for me too !

• The permalink structure I’m using is also: /index.php/%postname%/
• I use the new version “2.5” of WP upgraded from 2.3.3
• I use Apache/1.3.34 (Debian) PHP/5.2.0-8+etch4

Thx a lot Master Chief dlo ??

PS: post your results pals!

I copied down the new ‘rewrite.php’, uploaded it to my site and tested, but it made no difference. I’ve still got the issue where I cannot see any pages displayed.

@coyote:
After you upload the new rewrite.php, you have to turn your permalinks to the default, save this option, then turn on your custom permalinks and save it again. By doing so, WordPress is forced to regenerate its rewrite rules completely. And you’ll get a chance to see it working…

Best regards

@dlo,

YOU’RE A FREAKIN’ GENIUS ??

Thanks for that additional bit of info, my pages are now viewable again.

Thank you very much DLO!!