We were recently made aware of a problem where store pages on a WordPress site could return a 404 error response. We immediately provided a temporary fix which we made available as a plugin

This was just a temporary fix until we could find a better way of handling things and possible problems. Daniel from our developers page has come up with a resolution that no longer requires the editing of core code but does require changes to the individual store pages.

Previously a products page for example would have used the following

<?php
$GLOBALS['ectcartpage']='products';
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
get_header();
?>
<?php
get_sidebar();
?>
<div>
<?php
include "vsadmin/inc/incproducts.php";
?>
</div>
<?php
get_footer();
?>

We now suggest using

<?php
$GLOBALS['ectcartpage']='products';
require('./wp-config.php');
$wp->init();
$wp->parse_request();
$wp->query_posts();
$wp->register_globals();
get_header();
?>
<?php
get_sidebar();
?>
<div>
<?php
include "vsadmin/inc/incproducts.php";
?>
</div>
<?php
get_footer();
?>

This should be changed on all the ECT store pages and you should also delete the CustomCore Update plugin as it is no longer required

You can check the response headers on sites like

http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/
http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php

enter the URL of your store pages, such as category, product or detail page and you should get a "200 OK" response.

If you have any questions, let us know.

Please note that licenses purchased after February 2017 have this fix already included.

Andy

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You can avoid the 404 response code issues with WordPress on ECT pages without using the Custom Core Update plugin which can cause compatibility issues when WordPress updates are released. To do so, you need to change the following code at the top of the ECT front-end pages from:

[code]require('./wp-blog-header.php');
get_header();[/code]

To:

[code]require('./wp-config.php');
$wp->init();
$wp->parse_request();
$wp->query_posts();
$wp->register_globals();
get_header();[/code]

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Thanks Daniel. I'll do some testing on that.

Andy

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This has now been thoroughly tested and the original post edited. If anybody has any questions about the changes or requires any help, please let me know.

A big thank you to Daniel who has kindly provided the code.

Andy

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Hi Andy & Dewers,
I have also got the problem about "return a 404 error response" such as this link http://kagiweddings.com/sizeTable/

What's ECT front-end pages? How can I resolve this problem?

Best Regards,
Gary

Hi Gary

Send me an email with your FTP details and I'll sort it out for you.

Andy

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HI Andy,
I have just sent my ftp information to you via email.
Have you got it?
Best Regards,
Gary

Hi Gary

I added the code so that the store pages wouldn't return a 404 error but the page you mention /sizeTable/ doesn't physically exist so that's why it shows as Page Not Found.

Andy

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It is page name of wp page. All my wp pages caught the same 404 errors

Could it be you have changed the URL structure in the wordpress admin page. In the Wordpress Pages admin page can you view page and see what URL is shown?

Andy

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Hi Andy,
I have just found out why this error happen.
I found that the "edit" button for editing the Permalink disappeared in the WP Edit page when I activated the ECT Custom URLs plugin as the attached page.
Hope that you can resolve this problem as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Gary

[img]http://kagiweddings.com/ECT/ECT-URL_error.jpg[/img]

You can type in what you like in the field and then hit the submit button - that should work ok.

Andy

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Hi Andy,
It doesn't work. I can do so after I disactivate this plug-in.
Best Regards,
Gary

Can you de-activate the plugin and check the links to your stores pages are still working as they should. Instead of reactivating this plugin if you need it, try the one here instead https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

Andy

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resolved it, thx

any update on this? on my store pages on this tool
http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/

I get a 401 error

on this tool
http://www.webrankinfo.com/english/tools/server-header.php

I get a 301 error

here are my pages
https://www.steenent.com/categories.php
https://www.steenent.com/products.php


etc


how do I fix it

I have just sent you an email and will look into that for you.

Andy

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