So my previous post about having issues with my Wordpress permalinks has finally been resolved. The solution I had and methodology for resolving the issue was so far from graceful that it warrants mention.

Short recap: I tried to change my permalink structure in WP1.5. While this was successful, somehow my single.php file failed to show the correct post data when individual posts were selected from a list; choosing instead to display only the most recent post regardless of the link I had clicked.

After much swearing, fist pounding, sweating and smoking I realised that the issue I was having lay in the code that pulls the latest posts from the DB and parses them into the browser. Though I hadn’t changed the code for weeks the webpages suddenly stopped working yesterday. I went over that code with a fine tooth comb. Sure my code formatting was sloppy, sure I hadn’t pruned out all the code that I had commented out while customising the WP code. But it worked.

Eventually by a process of literally rebuilding the page, after upgrading to the snazzy WP2.0, I found the error lay in the latest posts function.

Solution?

Remove the offending code and replace it with a site search form. I guess it’s not terribly SEO but it should do wonders for the number of pages each user views.

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