We have a lot of pages under a parent page. It’s a mess, so I installed ACF to make them post types instead. I created a post type with the same name as the parent page and planned to convert the pages manually.
After installing ACF and created the post type, I saw the child pages will not resolve. When a user clicks on the link or enters the URL of the child page, they are dumped back to the homepage. In an attempt to get the pages back I deactivated and deleted ACF entirely, cleared the cache, but still the pages won’t load. They don’t even go 404. There is no clue in the error log files as to what is happening.
Somehow creating a post type with the same name as the parent page corrupted all the child pages that used that value. (I listed the URL as an example, but the topic got flagged as spam)
Bringing up the parent page buchananpr (dot) com/news works fine, but none of the child posts on that page (such as the press release above) will resolve as they should.
I am new to ACF and probably committed a no-no. I searched the forum here but didn’t find a matching issue. I can’t be the first person to experience this problem. How do I fix this?
Thanks in advance
UPDATE: There are several child pages that are corrupted, but not all. I am now not sure this is an ACF issue. It might be just a coincidence.
