Thanks to Marc’s comment on my last post, fixing Permalinks is easier that I originally thought for WordPress 2.6. Marc cites this post on the WordPress support forum. Whether you followed my instructions from my last post or not, the fix is the same:
- Re-upload the original rewrite.php file from 2.6’s latest.tar.gz to your wp-includes directory.
- From the dashboard, set permalinks to “Default” and Save it.
- From the dashboard, set permalinks to “Custom Structure” of your choice and Save it.
Mine is now: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
(Previously: /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ which does not work.)
For the record, search engines that indexed links with the /index.php/{etc.} structure still resolve properly.
Please leave a comment if it doesn’t work for you.
Big thanks to Marc for the comment.
UPDATE:Please see Part II, which includes links to the official WordPress support forum.
After trying everything from disabling plugins, to re-creating permalinks, to removing my .htaccess file, I still could not restore my permalink custom structure after upgrading WordPress from version 2.5.1 to 2.6. I then posted a new topic in the forums for help and continued to search for answers.
Finally, using several posts and a hack of my own at the end, I came up with the following procedure which fixed it for me:
1. Upload this file to your wp-includes directory:
Save this link as “rewrite.php” and then upload it to your /wp-includes directory.
2. From the dashboard, set permalinks to “Default” and Save it.
3. From the dashboard, set permalinks to “Custom Structure” of your choice and Save it.
Mine is: /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
4. The above fixed it, but I saw some errors at the top of each of my pages pointing to /wp-includes/plugin.php – so I added the following line of code which is a hack to suppress the errors:
error_reporting(0); Put this line at the top, just below the opening <?php tag.
That’s it. Please let me know if you have any problems by leaving a comment below.
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