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1. twixx007
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   My site is built, and I want to change the permalink structure. I changed it to a custom structure in the settings to /%pagename% . WP told me that I needed to put some code into my .htaccess folder, which was obvious because I was getting a complete 404 error on every page.

   The code was placed, and all of my pages are now working; however, my posts are not. On the posts, everything looks fine as far as the header, footer, sidebar, and even the url, but the content section returns a 404 error.

   Any advice? Thanks so much!

2. panther8
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi twixx007, the redirect plugin will help you to avoid the 404 errors, when changing the URL structure...
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

3. twixx007
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you, panther8. I'll try that. For the time being, I just went from custom to the month/year option, and that fixed everything. The only think that I don't like is to have the month/year in the url, so I'll try your suggestion.

4. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   for permalinks, AFAIK, /%pagename%/ is not a valid option

   /%postname%/ is however

   no plugin is needed, WP handles the redirects just fine.

5. panther8
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Oh, you're right Rev.Voodoo... I didn't noticed the pagename, thought it was postname.

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