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1. auschick
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I couldn't figure out why the heck my 404 pages weren't working when I installed WordPress 2.5. I assumed it was a problem with my host, but had absolutely no luck resolving it.

   The problem:
   Site running with Static Home Page. Whenever I wrote in an incorrect URL, WordPress ran a loop on all of the "pages" on my site (not posts), including those which were private or unpublished.

   The Solution (Thanks to Myriza):
   There's some weird problem with the way WordPress 2.5 handles static front page.

   Go to Settings | Reading |

   Then in addition to giving your static home page a "front page" page, you must also give the "posts page" a page (a random one). Weird, but it did the trick.

2. wireless
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Auschick and Myriza .... Thank you !!! I thought I'd done something really wrong as I couldn't find anyone else with the same problem for some time !
   This has saved me from going temporarily mad ...

   Brilliant Thanks!!!

3. greaterweb
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thought I had gone mad as well.

   Thanks for posting the fix!

4. mynagirl
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You are a life saver.

   I was going bananas.

5. intricateartist
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   THANK YOU. I could not figure out why the 404 template would not pull up, regardless of what I did it would loop some other random page. That did the trick!

6. fluvius
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   A million thanks auschick for your help. I couldn't figure out what was going on. Had been using the Dunstan-style Error Page plug-in but assumed when I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1 that the plug-in was incompatible.
   With your fix however everything is rosey once more.

   Thanks again.

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