link goes to wrong page
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this is an odd problem i’m having.
i have my permalinks set up as /%postname%/ because i’m using a blog as a homepage.
i’ve made the links in my header menu bar correspond accordingly.
for some reason, though, even though i have all the urls and slugs set correctly (quintuple checked), ONE of the menu bar links does not go to its page.
so i went to manage posts and clicked view on the post I had created. and it does not find the post and heads over to one of the “you clicked on a link that doesn’t exist” type pages.
here’s the weird part. if I change the post slug, i can then view the post, but strangely, the url in the header menu (though unchanged – i wrote it in manually) points to the NEW slug… so I changed the slug, and lo and behold, the menu link points to any slug BUT the URL it’s coded for.
anyone have an idea what’s going on?
thanks!
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okay, now this is really weird…
so I had used a meta to originally link the blog post to a PAGE called contact with the same PAGE slug as the original post slug… I deleted the page and the meta link which caused the break…
So I recreated the page, gave it the page slug contact and saved it. i then changed the page slug to contact-break and saved it again. and voila! the links all directed to the post instead of the page, including the hand-coded header url as well. i then deleted the page and it all stayed working…
i suspect the plugin i was using to allow the link to a page is responsible but why would the header menu url (../contact/) point to the right page no matter what its permalink structure was?
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Hi. If you’re using plugins and have the ability to change your urls, you must be self-hosted. If so, you need to be at wordpress.org/support for help.
This is wordpress.com.
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