Day/Month/Year Permalink Structure Fails in Archives

[Frenzie]

If you use a permalink structure with %day%/%monthnum%/%year% then the archives automatically become date/%day%/%monthnum%/%year%. WordPress automatically makes the links to monthly archives date/01/2010 etc (which is good), but if you go to it you get a 404 not found.

Reproduce using for example /%post_id%/%postname%/%day%/%monthnum%/%year%/

I "fixed" it with this plugin I wrote, but it will probably fail when things like /page/2/ come into play (that wasn't really important yet).

[danielbachhuber]

I tried and was unable to reproduce this issue in WordPress 5.2

When I set my permalink structure to /%post_id%/%postname%/%day%/%monthnum%/%year%/, my blog post loaded as expected at http://wordpress-develop.test/1/testing-a-new-draft/05/04/2019 and I was able to access a date archive at http://wordpress-develop.test/date/05/04/2019 as expected.

Feel free to re-open if there are other steps that reproduce this issue.

[frenziefrenz]

There are no other steps than those in the OP.

[danielbachhuber]

@frenziefrenz Can you share the permalink structure you're using?

[frenziefrenz]

@danielbachhuber The one from the OP, /%post_id%/%postname%/%day%/%monthnum%/%year%/. But the specifics don't matter much as long as it includes something like %monthnum%/%year%/, %day%/%monthnum%/%year%/, etc.

• The structure that wasn't mentioned in the OP works: http://172.17.0.3/date/05/04/2019/.
• http://172.17.0.3/date/04/2019/ is the default front page monthly archives link, which doesn't work.
• I don't think http://172.17.0.3/date/2019/ is directly accessible through the default theme, but in any case it also doesn't work when it should.

The workaround I attached a decade ago is still functional and it might even be borderline generic.