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It sounds like you did not select the volunteer page in the settings for the sign-up sheet plugin.

Go to the Sign-Up Sheets > Settings page, and select the correct page for the setting that says “Volunteer Sign Up Page”.

The sign-up links for tasks/items are created by getting the permalink from WordPress for the page you select there, and then adding the needed arguments to that.

Site Home: https://stellafair.com.au/ .htaccess and index.php live here.
Files location: https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation

> Settings: Set page to ‘Volunteers Needed’

In the volunteers needed the permalink is:
> Volunteers permalink: https://stellafair.com.au/volunteers-needed/ ?

Clicking on this, get the list of opportunities. Select one:
Sponsors: https://stellafair.com.au/volunteers-needed/?sheet_id=23

That page loads ok. You get a list of tasks from this page:
Selecting one: “Fair Friend” has a generated link: https://stellafair.com.au/stella-fair-committee-pages/?sheet_id=23&task_id=40&date=0000-00-00&signup_id=0

If I manually create the link:
https://stellafair.com.au/volunteers-needed/?sheet_id=23&task_id=40&date=0000-00-00&signup_id=0 That would work.

Looking in the database:
select ID, post_title, post_name, post_date, guid from wp_posts where post_title like ‘%Volunteers Needed%’

With these results:
14 Volunteers Needed stella-fair-committee-pages 2015-01-08 21:37:11 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/?page_id=14
26 Volunteers Needed 14-revision-v1 2015-01-08 22:40:56 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/?p=26
27 Volunteers Needed 14-autosave-v1 2015-01-08 22:43:59 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/?p=27
46 Volunteers Needed 14-revision-v1 2015-01-09 01:31:58 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/14-revision-…
39 Volunteers Needed 14-revision-v1 2015-01-08 23:16:15 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/14-revision-…
28 Volunteers Needed 14-revision-v1 2015-01-08 22:44:23 https://stellafair.com.au/Organisation/?p=28
222 Volunteers Needed volunteers-needed 2015-01-12 23:12:56 https://stellafair.com.au/?page_id=222
223 Volunteers Needed 222-revision-v1 2015-01-12 23:12:56 https://stellafair.com.au/222-revision-v1/

So it seems that either the rewrite rules or the plugin is looking at the first edition in the database and not the most recent. I am not sure how it works and so I solved this by deleting the ‘volunteers needed’ page and creating a new page for this information.

Hope this helps someone sometime

thank you for the plugin!
Vivienne
https://www.stellafair.com.au

If you have selected the right page in the settings, and you also have the correct URLs set up in the WordPress General Settings (WordPress URL and Site URL) and followed the instructions linked on the General Settings page to have your site homepage be different from the directory you installed WordPress, then it should fetch the permalinks just fine. If you manually did something with .htaccess to create your own rewrite rules, then it can definitely mess things up when WordPress tries to get the permalink.

This resolved – thank you! No idea why or how ??