Help! My permalinks have suddenly stopped working. I have had them set up as follows: /archives/%postname%/ almost since I began the blog in January, and they have worked fine. I was barely even in the WP Admin this weekend and haven't done a thing in ages except write posts and manage comments (no new plugins, upgrades, etc.), and suddenly I get the system 404 (not the 404 page from my template) when clicking on any permalink. I tried changing them to the default, and they work fine, and then changed them to date and name based and that works fine as well, but any permalink structure that begins with /archive/ returns a 404.
I tried deleting the htaccess and changing them again, but that did not help. I would appreciate any ideas anyone has.
Thanks.
The site is http://randaclay.com
By the way- I've changed the permalink structure to one that works for now so people can at least comment.
Do you, by chance, have a Page named "archive"? (or have you manually created a directory named that?)
Thanks for your response... no, I don't.
Ugh... I just tried the Permalink Migration plugin and that didn't work either.
Another update, I put in a manual, single post redirect into the htaccess, and it did work:
redirect 301 /archives/4-reasons-your-blog-needs-a-logo http://randaclay.com/blogging/4-reasons-your-blog-needs-a-logo
Maybe instead of using a plugin, I need to just set up something similar in htaccess that would take care of all of them at once, but I don't know what that code would look like...
This just happened to me as well... I upgraded to 2.3.1 on all five of my WP installs, but it's only happening on one of them. Weird! All the other 4 blogs permalinks work fine?!?
UPDATE: Now they are all of a sudden working again?!? What's going on!!
Randa
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