Hi Chris,

Well I figured out partly why this is happening – it’s because you are using %category% in your permalink structure. Do you need that? Obviously this is still a bug and we will fix it but that would be at least a temporary solution if you need it fixed now… I’m going to create a ticket and have one of the devs take a look at this. I’ll follow up here when I hear something back.

Cheers,
Jonah

Hi John, the devs are working on a fix. Keep an eye out for an update soon!

Hi Robert,

No update yet, we’ll get it fixed ASAP that’s all I can tell you.

Hi, John. We’re sorry to hear you are unsatisfied with the product and our level of support. While I would contest the claim that our “product doesn’t work at all” (as it seems after reviewing this thread that it’s an isolated bug we’re aware of and are fixing now that it’s been brought to our attention), we’ll certainly provide you a refund if you think it’s fair. Please send your order receipt to pro /a/ tri.be and we’ll get it processed for you with haste. Apologies on behalf of the whole team for failing to meet your expectations.

Hi John,

Thanks for the report. This does seem to be an issue and I’ve filed a ticket and we’ll get it fixed ASAP.

Cheers,
Jonah

I was having this same trouble. When I read this topic and found that the culprit was related to my permalink structure, I did a little research. It’s important to me to give members of my community the ability to add events from around the county. But it’s also important to develop good SEO (Search Engine Optimization), especially because we are a small rural area (anyone ever heard of the Feather River, or Feather River Country?).

I read several articles about permalink structures and decided having the category (%category%) in the URL did not have the SEO value I thought it did. Although I did have categories that were keyword valuable, they also represent multiple levels to the site structure, which isn’t necessarily good for SEO. Keyword rich entry titles (%postname%) can improve the value of a URL and the permalink can be edited to remove stop words (and, the, a, etc.) and even alter it from the actual article title.

I changed my permalink structure to /%postname%-%post_id%/ for site performance and SEO. You can search around for WordPress permalink strategies, but I found this article most helpful: http://docs.appthemes.com/tutorials/wordpress-permalink-structure/

Changing my permalink structure did require me to edit my .htaccess file to add permanent redirects. My site is only a month old, so I don’t have a lot of content to redirect. That article suggests it may not be that important with a new site, but I don’t want to lose any advantage I may have.

Since removing %category% from my permalink structure, I don’t have the WP_Router/wp-router-placeholder-page/ problem. I do hope that the developers will fix that glitch for those who do not want to change their permalink structure though. I have no reason to believe they won’t. I have a lot of faith in the Modern Tribe team in just the short amount of time I have been using their products.

I don’t know what world your company lives in, but expecting people to wait 2 months for a fix is just stupid. Maybe you should “unlock” your update instead of pretending like you’re Microsoft or something.

Same problem. I am adding the PAID Community tool to an existing website with thousands of links related which point to %category% URLs, and I cannot use CE until this is fixed. Can you give an update as to the fix schedule? You said ASAP 39 days ago….
using WP 3.4
CE 1.0.1
WebSynthesis Hosting.
Genesis Framework.

Also having this issue… It happened all of a sudden and don’t know what caused it (I haven’t made any recent changes to permalinks). I do remember however confirming the automated WordPress database update prompt.

Just letting you know I’m experiencing this issue too and am awaiting patiently the next release! Thanks for your great work, Rob, Jonah, and team.

Looks like 1.0.1.1 also fixed the WP-Router issue for me.

Didn’t show up in the WP updates, and had to manually download 1.0.1.1. However, this but did not fix the WP-Router problem for me.

As for permalink structure, I am using “Month and name” standard.

@ian – have you tried clearing your permalinks by clicking Save @ Settings > Permalinks?

@Mike – can you provide us WP admin access to your site? You can email credentials to pro [at] tri [dot] be and please reference this thread.

Thanks,
Jonah