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Thanks Keith.

I had a similar problem after the 2.7 upgrade…
It started with one post not showing properly when viewed singly and then went to two and then today it went bonkers and nothing showed as individual posts! They showed on the default front page list though.
So after fishing around the web I eventually ended up here and tried a complete roll-back and part-re-install.

I took out all the plugins that had anything to do with permalinks and caching:
Broken Link Checker
Deans Permalink Migration
Easy Redirect
Enforce www. Preference
Google XML Sitemaps
Permalink Redirect
WP Supercache

I’ve been mixing and matching with these things over the various incarnations of WordPress, mind you, so they weren’t all on when I finally pulled the plug, so to speak.

I then flipped Permalinks back to defaults and the menu structure and posts’ links worked correctly.
On going back to pretty permalinks I still had no joy…

I then re-uploaded good copies of all files in the root and wp-admin folders (I didn’t do wp-includes), overwriting everything.

But still no joy… (BTW, in all these tests, I used Firefox and Opera, refreshing each time).

So I followed @madsk’s words above and whipped out the old htaccess by renaming and made a new htaccess and just added the single line suggested, set as 777.
NOW the pretty permalinks started to work and WordPress wrote it’s stuff to htaccess.

Now it’s really curious… I copied the “new” WP generated code to the old htaccess file, overwriting the WP code at the bottom, where it was anyway… IT WAS EXACTLY THE SAME!! Then I swapped the files over (by renaming using my Hosting client) keeping exactly the same previous permissions of 644.

And STILL everythings works! Why? I don’t know, but I’m happy!

My next task is to re-enable super cache and google sitmaps and then gingerly try some other plugins. Redirecting I can probably live without now as the number of posts on the current permalink structure massively outnumbers those on the old default system I previously used.

Hi Webfox
I don’t know if you ever got it sorted. One thing I’ve started using is TinyMCE Advanced from Andrew Ozz
It may fulfil your needs. It includes a really easy-to-use page break tag button (a bit like the “more” tag) that sounds like what you want. The “chapters” in your “book” could then be the WP sub-pages structure and you wouldn’t need so much hand coding of ID numbers etc.
It works for “posts” and “pages”. The advantage is you can easily page-break where you want so your composition matches the theme layout say. Inserting a line of code in a theme is all it takes to show page 1,2,3 etc and I guess the same for the prev-next structure if that’s what you need (although I haven’t tried that yet).

I agree with road76.

What’s the resolution?

The same behaviour is exhibiting for me.
The first notice in this chain about the problem was two weeks ago and really, it should be fixed or pulled now because it seems a bit odd saying it’ll be fixed in June.
However, it may not all be the author’s fault as I had the same thing happen to an Alex King “Category Overload” plugin that gave me his “404 Notifier” instead in the WP2.5 plugin upgrade screen. This was two weeks ago as well, although I haven’t checked if it has been fixed as I just pulled it at the time. I was only trying stuff.

On a personal note, I’d like to thank all the plugin authors for their hard work and it shames us all to severely criticise them for work that they are doing for little or no reward. I’m sure they are doing their best. The software IS open-source so anyone can have a go at fixing the problems. I’m just sorry I don’t have more skills…!

The <?php wp_footer(); ?> works for me!

I had the same problem on my main site and this fix solved it . The Illacrimo Theme I’d just switched to didn’t have the line in the footer…

However, another of my sites, my wife’s, https://jillrees.com still doesn’t collect stats and it hasn’t for a while. I always suspect it is a WordPress ID thing as I’d changed the ID for her own after I’d initially set it up. Her new theme includes the line in the footer so it’s not that problem. However, it’s low down on the priorities to fix!

I, like others, naturally assumed the fault was the WP2.5 upgrade, but I actually tried a few new plugins and themes at the same time. So the moral is that I broke the cardinal rule of:

one change – test – another change – test – etc