Cannot use old slug – it just 301s to site home page

I had the same problem a few weeks ago, this is what solved it for me:

Went to Settings / Permalinks, switched to Plain and Saved.
After that I changed Permalink settings back to the previously used values and it worked.

Let me know if this fixes your issues.

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