• I have what seems to be the common problem of the category links not working for my posts. I just get the 404 error.
    I read some older forum posts here to try to resolve but nothing worked.
    I tried changing my perma-links to default and even when set to default I kept getting nothing found or 404.

    Any ideas? I am pretty new to wordpress, but given proper guidance I can sort things out.

    Thanks

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you tried:

    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If applicible, also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
    – To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited default Twenty Twelve theme for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.
    resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive).

    Thread Starter gtjr92

    (@gtjr92)

    Thanks I will try these and post back my results.

    Thread Starter gtjr92

    (@gtjr92)

    I just tried all of the things mentioned above and none of them resolved my issue.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and try reading Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

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