WordPress 2.6 upgrade broke my permalinks
Less than impressed with this. Logged in earlier to blog about my iPhone, and was asked to upgrade WordPress to the latest stable release. Fair enough, I reckoned, as WordPress is an app with some history of being exploited; so I duly download the zip, do the upgrade, etc etc. All seems fine and I make my blog post… but I notice a typo, so I try to click through to the article to access the Edit link. I get a HTTP404/Not Found error. Odd, I think, and do some testing; it quickly becomes apparent that all my individual post pages are down.
Googling quickly turns up that this seems to be a known problem that WordPress 2.6 shipped with. It’s related to whenever “index.php” appears in the permalink tag, which admittedly is a bit ugly and unnecessary. There is a workaround but I must admit I just rolled back to my previous version right away. Good job I kept my old source tree and a snapshot of my database from just before the upgrade, eh?
Thanks for the info! This has been driving me crazy for hours.
A good reminder for me not to jump right on the latest WP version updates. (since nothing seems to be tested thoroughly, we are the guinea pigs)!