[wp-hackers] page(\d+) slugs

[Andrew Nacin]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Steve Taylor <steve at sltaylor.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Jon. I was thinking of the ticket where the preg_match was
> added, to appreciate why this happened - heartening to see there's a
> ticket about the problems it's causing.


It was added because numeric slugs were broken in most instances, due to the
rewrite rule that allows for pages to be specified directly, e.g. /2 versus
/page/2.

Original ticket: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11917.