I’m having a strange issue with events redirecting to other events when they have closely related slugs.<\/p>\n
It was first reported to me about a day ago from a user who wanted to enroll for an event in California in February, but complained that every time she clicked the link she was sent to a page with a listing for an event in Europe in August. However, the European event was a copy of the same type of event — and the slugs had names like this:<\/p>\n
event-10-2
\nevent-10-2-2
\nevent-10-2-2-2
\nevent-10-2-2-2-2<\/p>\n
etc. <\/p>\n
I had reviewed the specific February event on December 3rd after installing the Event Tickets Pro upgrade, so I know it was working then without a problem. I suspect that this was probably triggered by the WP 4.4. upgrade because I’ve found a lot of glitches on different sites. .. but I can’t be sure.<\/p>\n
I was able to fix it by simply renaming the slugs so that each event had a unique slug. The reason that these have similar slugs is that they are different dates and times for identical events with the same title, and apparently when WordPress sees a duplicate title it simply tacks on -2 to the end of the previous slug. <\/p>\n
However, there is another series of events showing the same behavior. I’ve included the link in the system information section.. I will leave this intact for a few days to allow you to take a look at it. Basically same story, with this series of slugs:<\/p>\n
otherevent-4-2 (January)
\notherevent-4-2-2 (March)
\notherevent-4-2-2-2 (April)
\notherevent-4-2-2-2-2 (September)
\notherevent-4-2-2-2-2-2 (November)<\/p>\n
The first two events on the list go to the correct link.<\/p>\n
But when the link to the April event is clicked, it goes to the September event.<\/p>\n
November event goes where it is supposed to go. <\/p>\n
So it’s a mystery . Obviously I can fix this by paying more attention to the slugs that are used … but it would nice to be able to get to the bottom of this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1042009","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n