Wordpress with static posts page and custom permalink structure doesn't find posts with numeric permalinks

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I've setup a static posts page named "Journal", mydomain.com/journal.
This page now lists my 15 latest posts. All fine this long.

I'm able to access each post individually by going to mydomain.com/postname. I want to change this so I'm able to access each post individually by going to mydomain.com/journal/postname.

If I change the permalink structure to mydomain.com/journal/%postname%/ I can access posts with a permalink like mydomain.com/journal/im-just-a-regular-post/ just fine.

But if I go with a numeric permalink so I end up with an url such as mydomain.com/journal/12345 or a more complex (the endgame here) such as mydomain.com/journal/99058672222 it'll just serve me up the content of the posts page without even redirecting me.

If I revert the permalink settings to mydomain.com/%postname%/I can access my post at mydomain.com/99058672222 just fine. Why's that? Can I get around this somehow?

UPDATE I installed Debug Bar

This is what I get with mydomain.com/journal/regular-old-post

Request:

journal/regular-old-post

Query String:

name=regular-old-post

Matched Rewrite Rule:

journal/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$

Matched Rewrite Query:

name=regular-old-post&page=

And with mydomain.com/journal/99058672222 I get:

Request:

journal/99058672222

Query String:

page=%2F99058672222&pagename=journal

Matched Rewrite Rule:

(.?.+?)(/[0-9]+)?/?$

Matched Rewrite Query:

pagename=journal&page=%2F99058672222

I can clearly see that they're different but I know too little about the mechanics of how the rewriting stuff works in WP. Any pointers?

Is the name of the post 99058672222 or is that the post ID ? — nothingtosee
– nothingtosee, Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 2:41
@nothingtosee I've set the permalink to 99058672222 manually, the name is actually something else. — INT
– INT, Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 9:21

INT · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-06 10:20:53Z

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With some help I was able to get it working with this:

add_action('init', 'journal_urls');
  function journal_urls() {
      add_rewrite_rule(
          '^journal/([^/]*)$',
          'index.php?name=$matches[1]',
          'top'
      );
  }

Maybe someone can benefit from this in the future.

answered Oct 6, 2014 at 10:20

INT

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