Hello,
I am just setting up my blog. When I click on the links on the right(bread, etc) they take me to page not found. What am I doing wrong that my posts aren't being linked to the categories? Thanks:)
Categories clicking error? (12 posts)
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socalledwife
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Hi,
Check with these options:
-> Disable all plugins and enable it one by one to find out the culprit.
-> Upgrade your wordpress to the latest version
-> Change your theme to default to rules out theme level issues.Thanks,
Shane G.
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Posted 2 years ago #Hi Shane,
I have the latest version. I have removed allof the plugins and removed all themes. I am still having issues.
When I add a category and put one of my posts in it, it should automatically create the page, right? So when someone clicks they are taken to that page. Correct? -
ClaytonJames
Posted 2 years ago #@socalledwife
Did you happen to recently change your permalink structure ?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_.22Pretty.22_permalinks
Take a look at the info under this heading while you are there; Creating and editing (.htaccess)
I suspect it might be possible that your .htaccess file just did not get updated correctly.
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Posted 2 years ago #Hmm, I'm not sure. Would I need to look in my domain for that or WP?
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Posted 2 years ago #For your .htaccess file?
If you follow the link I left above, you will see the heading "Where's my .htaccess file?", directly above the heading "Creating and editing (.htaccess) ".
Reading everything under the heading at the top of the page; "Using "Pretty" permalinks", contains a lot of answers.
If you continue to scroll up to the very top of that page once there, it will also explain permalinks, pretty permalinks, and have detailed instructions on their usage.
The only reason I asked if you changed them, is because I noticed that when I roll over any of your links, the urls do not appear to be in the default (ugly) configuration.
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Posted 2 years ago #Ok I did read through it in the meantime. I am still pretty confused as to where I need to update the info.
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Posted 2 years ago #Ahhhh.. geeze, I am sorry! (slapping my forehead).
If you go to your dashboard, Settings > Permalinks > click the "Save Changes" button. If WordPress cannot write to the file, it will give you a message that says something like, "If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t…" near the bottom. You can make .htaccess temporarily writable - chmod 666, then update again. You should not get an error after that. Make sure you chmod .htaccess back to 644 when you are done. You don't want to leave it writable.
The other option is to just copy the code generated on the permalinks page after you click the update button, and then open .htaccess in your ftp client and paste in the code, saving the file. If you have not seen it before, .htaccess is hidden by default. You will have to find the "show hidden files" option in your ftp client to make it visible. Or, you may have to create one.
[EDIT] Looking at your site again, I think what I am seeing is that the permalinks have been changed from the default to "month and name". So, I hope just updating .htaccess works for you.
Good luck to you.
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Posted 2 years ago #Thanks. Yea, I got the "you need to update the htaccess now"
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Posted 2 years ago #Ok my web girl got it fixed for me, thank goodness! Thanks for helping the slow girl :-)
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Posted 2 years ago #No problem... If you have never done it before, it all just seems a little foreign at first.
:-)
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