[wp-testers] Strange happenings when creating a "child page"

DD32 wordpress at dd32.id.au
Tue May 20 01:13:47 GMT 2008


..Which you opened.
I could've swore i saw a ticket for this last week, and assumed that was  
the one until i saw the timestamp :)

On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:11:02 +1000, DD32 <wordpress at dd32.id.au> wrote:

> Sounds like this Trac Ticket:
> http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6997
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:04:36 +1000, WP Testers List  
> <wp-testing at mou.me.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> Morning/afternoon all
>>
>> Could anyone advise me if this is a bug?  I remember a lot of work being
>> put
>> into "canonical" URLs back when 2.3 was being developed, so I don't know
>> whether this is a "feature" or a bug - currently, my moneys on bug.
>>
>> I'm trying to assign a "child" page to a parent.  It relates to a
>> festival I
>> go to every year, so I want the structure to be like this:
>>
>>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2007/
>>       and
>>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2008/
>>
>>
>> Unfortunately, WordPress doesn't seem to like this.  In fact, if I try  
>> to
>> visit either of these pages, it displays the content of
>> http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/   (ie, the parent).
>> I tried renaming the page slug, so that the URL was:
>>
>>    http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/glastonbury2007/
>>
>> And this works!  The only problem is, its not what I want.
>> So it seems to be using a 4 digit number as a slug thats causing it to
>> break.  I tried a few variations to see what was going on - bizarrely,
>> using  http://mou.me.uk/glastonbury/2007/a/  threw me back to a post I'd
>> written in 2007, unrelated to "Glastonbury".
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know whats going on?  Is this something I should be logging
>> on
>> Trac?
>>
>> Short of physically creating a "glastonbury" folder in my root and using
>> the
>> template system, I can't see a way round this.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Chris
>>
>> p.s. Currently on WP 2.5.1
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