Similar slugs can show the wrong post/page on visit

Status

Resolved

Reported for

WPML Multilingual CMS 4.4.8

Resolved in

4.4.9

Overview of the issue

In some cases, posts and pages that have similar slugs may show the wrong content.

For example, if you have a post type called Books with content at http://example.com/book/title/, and you also have a post with the same slug, http://example.com/title/, you will see the wrong content when visiting these URLs.

Workaround

Our developers are working on fixing the issue.

As a workaround:

1. Go to plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/query-filtering/class-wpml-404-guess.php, line 36


2. Replace

   	public function guess_cpt_by_name( $name, $query ) {
   		$type  = $query->get( 'post_type' );
   		$ret   = array( $name, $type, false );



3. With

   	public function guess_cpt_by_name( $name, $query ) {
   		$type  = $query->get( 'post_type' );
   		if (empty($type)) {
   		    $type = !empty($query->get( 'pagename' )) ? 'page' : 'post';
   		}
   		$ret   = array( $name, $type, false );

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