I’m having a Wordpress issue… or I think it may be an issue triggered by wordpress.
When Wordpress started to provide new releases I started to notice, well, rather weird behaviors with the performance with my site. My archives stopped showing up when I attempted to access them.
As of August 27th of this year I will have been blogging for a year. So, one should have the ability going to the following URL and see all the posts from August of last year:
http://vansantos.com/2008/08/
Again, in theory, this would show all posts from the month of August, 2008. That is not the case. The reader/surfer is redirected to the main page of the blog. It it a huge issue? No, but it is very – VERY – annoying because I want to be able to access the back information I also want readers to have access to the information.
Interestingly, this only happens for my archives. If one goes to the root tag URL, a 404 note is displayed. The same applies to the root category URL. I cannot figure it out.
Part of me wonders if this is a .htaccess issue, better known as an Apache configuration file issue, but I cannot find a way to validate my question. I’ve changed the configuration file a number of times this evening but cannot get my desired outcome.
As a recap, this error started once I began to upgrade Wordpress a few months back but I cannot find an indicator that the issue is caused by Wordpress OR by the .htaccess file on my server.
UPDATE
I figured out the issue – it was a config setting with a plugin that I use. When I updated the plugin a few months back, they added a new field that eliminated the archives (for some reason) and set this “feature” as a default without telling users. Nice job on their part.
The archives should be working now.
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