Epic 404 on listings

“i enabled category in url but then google still gives them without the category in it”

The ones i checked from this search https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/epic-404-on-listings/#post-388616

Now work, so i gess google has a mix and mash of some with and some without, just pick one and stick with it.

Check if there are many links google has to broken urls, you might have to do some redirects.

Stiofan

if it were me..

I would write a wee snippet that only ran on the 404 page, it would grab the last slug and check if its a real post and if so redirect to the proper url.

Stiofan

Hi Pat,

function _my_fix_listings_404s(){
	if( is_404() ){

		$url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
		$slug = basename($url);
		global $wpdb;
		$post_id = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_type IN ('gd_place','gd_event') AND post_status = 'publish' AND post_name = %s", $slug));

		if(!empty($post_id)){
			wp_safe_redirect( esc_url( get_permalink( $post_id) ), 301 );
			exit;
		}
	}
}
add_action( 'template_redirect', '_my_fix_listings_404s' );

Stiofan

I updated my code here and also on your site.

In this case its not working because its looking for “mixto-restaurant” but the actual url is “mixto-restaurant-1”

If this is wide spread we could try altering the query a bit but if its just that listing then its not really worth it.

Stiofan

yeah give it a try.

Stiofan