[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #5705: Yearly Archive is Broken When Custom Permalink Contains Page Slug

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#5705: Yearly Archive is Broken When Custom Permalink Contains Page Slug
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 Reporter:  fonetik  |       Owner:  anonymous                         
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new                               
 Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:  2.3.3                             
Component:  General  |     Version:  2.3.2                             
 Severity:  normal   |    Keywords:  rewrite, permalink, canonical, url
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 If the index of a Wordpress blog is configured to show a page and the blog
 loop then runs when another page is accessed, then it is natural to have
 that page slug as the first entry in the permalink path.

 In my specific case, "/" shows the "Main" page, so I created a "Blog" page
 (whose slug is "blog") on which the normal blog posts loop runs. I have
 custom permalinks which look like "/blog/year/month/day/post-slug".

 Single entries, daily archives, and monthly archives can all be accessed
 correctly, but yearly archives just show the blog front page (as if the
 URL path was "/blog/" instead of "/blog/2006/".

 The same issue results if the first directory in the permalink path is the
 same as a normal page slug, though in that case the yearly archive URL
 just shows that page.

 I spent a lot of time looking through rewrite.php and it seems that the
 issue could have something to do with the relaxed pagination rules which
 allow "/blog/2/" to reference the second page of paginated posts instead
 of the canonical "/blog/page/2/" although it could also be a problem with
 the URL being matched by the relaxed attachments rules which allow "/page
 /attachment-name/" instead of the "/page/attachment/attachment-name/".

 More generally, it seems that there are a lot of overly general URLs
 accepted by the rewrite. The new canonical URL stuff in 2.3 is great, but
 it seems strange that there is code to reduce the number of URLs in
 canonical.php when there is extra code in rewrite.php that only exists to
 create multiple URLs which point to the same thing (pagination,
 attachments, and feeds seem to be the worst offenders).

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