I upgraded my Wordpress installation to 2.1 the other day from 2.0. Normally I don’t bother with keeping my software so up-to-date but I had heard some good things about the newest version. After upgrading everything appeared to be working correctly except for some of my pages.

The link exchange page worked fine but the other pages returned a WP 404 message. I created a new page as a test to see if maybe I could just get away with redoing the 4 or so other pages from scratch but that didn’t work either.

What’s going on?
After some digging on the web I came across a wordpress support thread suggesting that the issue might be Kates Gasis’ Sideblog Plugin (which I’m using to populate the ‘distractions‘ list). I haven’t had a problem with this plugin in the past while this bug appears to be documented, I was using Kates’ 3.7 release which is supposed to address this issue (didn’t work for me.. and sorry no time to debug).

According to the above WP support thread, someone identified the cause of this issue to be centered around the default post category. Hmm that’s odd, I didn’t think pages had any association to categories…

Well I stand corrected. After looking at the wp_post2cat table, Read More »