bad next_posts_link when using a Static Front Page and custom permalink structure.

[robanna]

I'm using the following link structure:

Front page displays
A static page (select below)

• Front page: Home (www.apexprd.org)
• Posts page: News and Events (www.apexprd.org/news-and-events)

• Permalinks: /news-and-events/%postname%

In 2.3 this worked fine, I would get post pages under www/apexprd.org/news-and-events/page/2.

In 2.5, posts show up as www.apexprd.org/page/2 and not /news-and-events/page/2 as it should. The link for next_posts_link shows as /news-and-events/page/2 but when you click on it, it returns a 404 error.

If I change the permalink to anything but /news-and-events/ then it goes to the correct page

Example: permalink structure is /news-and-events/%postname%
click on next_posts_link and you get a 404 error. everything else works as it should

Change the permalink structure is /news-and-event/%postname% (remove the 's' on events)
click on next_posts_link and it goes to /news-and-events/page/2/ just fine but all of the post links look like /news-and-event/post-name

Could it be something in the rewrite.php file?

I am having the same problem. I would like to ask that the priority be increased on this as it will cause problems for numerous users and ultimately make many current sites malfunction.

Look at line 1002 of wp-includes/rewrite.php.

​http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.5/wp-includes/rewrite.php#L1002

Change that line from this:

$this->use_verbose_page_rules = false;

to this:

$this->use_verbose_page_rules = true;

Change false to true. With that done, go to the Settings->Permalinks page and click "Save Changes". Does that help? If so I can create a plugin that does that for you. I'll try to fix this properly for 2.5.1, but given that this setup works more by accident than design a proper fix might be difficult.

That looks like it'll fix it.
Thanks-

Not fixed, reopening.

(Not that I'm having this problem, just saying editing core != fixed.)

Has this been fixed in 2.6?

Thanks I will check back when 2.7 is out ;-)

Closed #7200 as a duplicate of this.

Also in case you did not notice, it is not the s that is causing it. What happens is if that first part of the permalink is the same as your posts page the links look correct but lead to 404s or a post that WordPress thinks redirecting you to is the most proper thing.

Hi Ryan - I've documented some of this issue in this thread: ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/159406#post-802603 - Just posting as it might help with clues to resolving this issue.

I was experiencing this issue, am using 2.6, and just fixed it using Ryan's recommended ​method described above.

So far I have not seen any negative side-effects.

This is still an issue in 2.7. I see that it's been changed from 2.7 to 2.8. I'm just saying...

ryan - I'm now facing this issue as well. You mentioned in your previous comment:

but given that this setup works more by accident than design a proper fix might be difficult.

I'm curious what you mean by "this setup works more by accident"? I have WordPress installed in /wordpress, a static home (/) and posts (/blog) page and configured permalinks to use the /blog prefix. This seems like it would be a common configuration.

I was going to try and look into the issue (past the solution you provided), but was curious what about this "configuration" that makes it hard to fix?

possible solution

Attached a patch with a possible solution. It fixes my issue, but I'm not sure what possible side-effects it might have.

Anyone else willing to apply and test?

new patch - moved code from init() into page_rewrite_rules() function

Added a new patch that moves the check into the page_rewrite_rules() function. I had it in the init() function until I realized that it was being called on every request instead of just the necessary ones.

I did find one side-effect...if you make the change to use a static posts page and use a new permalink (adding /blog for example) to an existing site, by default, the old post url's will not work - they will just return a 404.

For example:
mysite.com/my-post (before - will no longer work after change)
mysite.com/blog/my-post (after)

more general fix

I uploaded a new patch for this one. It changes the use_verbose_page_rules check, in such a way that constant strings at the beginning of the structure are ignored.

patch still works, with a hunk.

(In [11335]) Better verbose page rule detection to support showing posts on a page with a custom permastruct. Props Denis-de-Bernardy. fixes #6603

That patch might be too aggressive in turning on verbose rules. /archives/%postname% probably shouldn't invoke verbose rules if archives is not a page. Hmmmm.

agreed, but it's meant to fix this, above all:

In 2.5, posts show up as www.apexprd.org/page/2 and not /news-and-events/page/2 as it should.

we'll work out how to dump these verbose rules after. it's not a very common use-case anyway...

opened #9824

see #9825 as well

Sounds good.