Hi Chris,

It appears to be a WP/Database issue, not a theme issue. 2014 theme still has the same problems.

Here’s what’s in our htaccess file:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Tried disabling all of the plugins again and had no luck there.

Tried changing the slugs but no luck sadly.

One thing I did forget to mention was previously I had setup a bunch of pages that would have similar URLs to the category (we were debating if we wanted to use a page system or category system with the main menu but decided on categories). Well when the issue first started happening, SOMETIMES, the category links would redirect to the pages…

IE
http://www.extremerigs.net/category/news would redirect to http://www.extremerigs.net/pages/news.

So I tried disabling all of the unused pages to see if that would help. It stopped the random redirecting, keyword here being random and inconsistent, but still 404.

Thanks for your help guys.

Might just work on the site locally and do a clean wipe of the database and go from there…

Hi Guys

Just to confirm – Christopher – I checked the log and there were no recent errors.

Lucian – there are no cache plugins so there was nothing to do there nor cdn plugins. It’s not a custom pretty permalink – it’s just the standard “day and name” option so we are hardly going offroad with this.

I did make sure attributes were 666 on .htaccess, and I cleared the file, and it was auto regenerated by WP to be the same as it was before.

The problem is not that the links don’t change – the menu links change depending on the setting in WP e.g. clicking the menu category gives the following link:

Permalink “Default” setting:
http://www.xtremerigs.net/?cat=4
– result = shows page correctly

Permalink “Day and Name” setting:
http://www.xtremerigs.net/category/build-logs/
– result = gives 404 error

Other things from those links – adding to the .htaccess in the public_html dir:
– I tried AllowOverride – but that seemed to stop the site from working – maybe I did this wrong
– I tried FollowSymLinks – no change

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

Thank you very much for the suggestion.

@Lucian I played with the permalinks and they seem to be the source of the problem. Currently I’m using the “Day and Name” structure; I changed it to “Default” and all of my menus were fixed, unfortunately changing the structure of course breaks all of the links we’ve posted anywhere over the past year…

I changed it back to “Day and Name” and menus are dead again, but at least the old links all work still. Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks.

Hi Christopher,

That worked! I pinpointed it down to the Official Facebook Plugin that was causing the problem. Thank you very much for the suggestion. Maybe tagDiv could look into fixing up the code to work better with this Plugin as it’s kind of a major one. Thanks again for the assistance.

Oh and I’ve tried it in Chrome and FireFox.