Recurring events linking to unrelated posts

[ian]

Hi,

I’ve created a recurring event, and all is good with the main url:

http://www.downtowntucson.org/event/score-pcpl/all/

But when I try to link on any date-specific future instances, such as:

http://www.downtowntucson.org/event/score-pcpl/2015-02-24/

I get pushed to what appears to be a totally random post:

All Souls Media Circle Accepts Submissions for Photography Exhibition

Tried regenerating permalinks. Tried all non-tribe plugins disabled and twenty-fourteen. Refreshed permalinks and still nothing.

Any help appreciated.

[Josh]

Hey Ian,

Thanks for reaching out to us!

This is definitely a very strange issue to be having. I took a look at your site and it looks like you have other recurring events that are working fine. Just something strange about this particular event?

You mentioned that you deactivated all plugins and set to a default WordPress theme (twentyfourteen) so it doesn’t sound like this is a conflict on the surface of it (still could be with residual elements left behind by some plugins). One thing that comes to mind would be a change to the .htaccess file. I’m wondering if there are some generic redirect rules within that file that could be causing the issue.

If you check your site’s .htaccess file, do you notice anything strange in there?

Thanks!

[ian]

It does seem to just be this event. My htaccess is straightforward:

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/gif “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/jpeg “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType image/png “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType text/css “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/javascript “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript “access plus 1 month”
ExpiresByType application/x-icon “access plus 1 year”
</IfModule>

# 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

FWIW, this event was created through the community events plugin. Not sure if that has any implications.

[Josh]

Hey Ian,

Thanks for providing the additional info.

Definitely have me a little bit stumped at the moment. I’ll have to run this by some others on our team to get some further input.

A couple of quick questions first though:

• I know you mentioned that you’ve deactivated all other plugins and switched to a default theme. I want to bring up the Testing for Conflicts procedures page to verify that followed those steps the same way they’re laid out there? ( Hate to sound like I’m nagging on this point but it is always the first thing we have to ensure is out of the way).
• Is this the only event that has been submitted via the Community Events form? If not, is there any other unusual behavior associated with other events submitted via that form?
• Are you using any sort of redirect plugin? I did a little research and noticed that there was an open issue with a popular 301 redirect plugin where redirects persisted even after deleting the redirect and deactivating the plugin (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unable-to-remove-301-redirects).

Hopefully these questions will help to get to the root of this issue.

Thanks!

 

[ian]

So — yes, I did go in and re-follow all the steps:

http://dtp.staging.wpengine.com/event/score-pcpl/all/

if you link on the first one, you get the same behavior.

And no, no redirection plugins here. I did install a rewrite analyzer and it’s showing this:

Rewrite analyzer
Test URL: http://dtp.staging.wpengine.com/event/score-pcpl/2015-02-10/

Pattern

Substitution

event/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$

attachment: 2015-02-10

(.?.+?)(/[0-9]+)?/?$

pagename: event/score-pcpl/2015-02-10
page:

[ian]

This URL may also be helpful:

http://dtp.staging.wpengine.com/event/score-pcpl/2015-02-17/

I’ve added a dumper to display all the rewrite rules.

[Josh]

Hey Ian,

Thanks for supplying all this information!

I apologize for the delay. I’m reaching out to our developers to see if they have any insight when reviewing the information that you’ve provided.  I will follow up with you as we look into the information provided.

I apologize again for the inconvenience this has caused.

Thanks!

[Josh]

Hey Ian,

One thought from a fellow team member. Since this is only occurring with this one event, it doesn’t seem like it’s a rewrite rules issue. If it was, we would suspect to see this happening across all of your events. The alternative may be a strange issue with IDs.

Could you try to:

1. copy all of the event details
2. Delete the current recurring event and then remove from Trash
3. recreate the event to see if the issue persists.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks!

[ian]

OK, deleting and recreating seems to have broken whatever logjam was happening. Will keep an eye out for similar recurrences and let you know!

[Josh]

Hey Ian,

Awesome! I’m glad that worked for you.

I’ll go ahead and close this ticket for now. If you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to open a new one.

Thanks!

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