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

wp-Testing wp-testing at mou.me.uk
Tue May 20 08:01:01 GMT 2008


Yep, that was me  ;)

Did a quick search on trac but couldn't find anything similar.  
Apologies if its already been added!



DD32 wrote:
> ..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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