WP Post Link Won't Work Anymore?

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I have a WP post link that will not work anymore. I have hundreds of other posts and pages that still work so I'm sure it is not a plugin issue.

Example:

mydomain.com/keyword1-keyword2-keyword3

It was working fine. I may have edited the post but I have done that on dozens of other posts and pages and have not had this problem.

I tried trashing/deleting the post and then rebuilding it but it still won't work. I hate to abandon it altogether because I have some good quality links going to it. (Well I used to. )

There is no error message or anything. The header and everything show up but where the content should be it is simply blank. I have quadruple checked the link url and it is correct.

It is listed in a category and subcategory but so are many, many of my other posts and they are working.

Any ideas about how I can solve this mystery?

Thanks in advance, Janice
#programming #anymore #link #post #work
  • Is this post a fairly large post ?
    When you tried to re-create, did you give it the same name or different name ?
    Any shortcodes in the post ?
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    • Thanks for the reply.

      No. It has 1 image and 609 words.

      I gave it the same name because I wanted to keep my backlinks.

      I had one originally but did not add it back when I rebuilt the post. I don't see it any longer in the Visual or HTML edit sections. It is just a plain old content blog post.

      Does any of this give you some clues?
  • What I would do, is make a new post with a new name and make sure it works correctly. Then delete the old one, then trash it, then rename the post to the correct name as it has the backlinks to it. Make sure you copy and paste the post to your clipboard / notepad so you have a backup of the original post info.
  • Well... thanks so much for trying to help but it didn't work.

    I made the new post with a new name.
    Deleted the original.
    The new post worked just fine.
    I renamed it back to the original title I want and it would not work again.

    Could there be something in the CSS files that permanently blocks a specific url if I did something wrong with the link?

    I have the "Broken Link Checker" plugin installed and it is not showing any broken links. I tried the "nuclear option" to check the links again on the entire site and it does not come up with any broken links.

    Still baffled....
  • Sending you a PM
  • Create a new post with name name and slug, delete the old post and trash it.

    Give redirection from old URL to New URL..

    Use this plugin for redirection..

    WordPress › SS Old URLs « WordPress Plugins
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