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1. jmtaylor91
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I've finished putting together the bones of my theme for my new wordpress site. The problem is when I click on a single post I get a 404 error.

   My site is here.

   Could anyone suggest what's going wrong?

   I can show my .phps and such if needed.

   Thanks in advance!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   A single post link like http://www.iamjoetaylor.co.uk/home/%EF%BF%BDhttp://www.iamjoetaylor.co.uk:/home/?p=1%EF%BF%BDtitle=%22Hello is never going to work. Are you using <?php the_permalink();?> to create the links to the single posts in index.php.

3. jmtaylor91
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yeah I noticed that, I knew there would be something wrong with that part of the code.

   My code at this point is: <h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>“title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

   The tutorial I was using for my theme got a bit vague at this point and was a little unclear.

   I'm guessing there's something wrong here. Sorry for taking so long to reply by the way and thanks for the help.

4. jmtaylor91
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, can someone help with this? I'm quite stuck here.

   Thanks

5. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Check your curly quotes here:
   

   href=”<?php the_permalink(); ?>“

   Replace them with the correct entity.

   Also, add a space here, between the closing quotes, and title:
   

   ?>“title=

6. Chip Bennett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   p.s. if you copy-and-paste code from an online tutorial, always paste the code into a text editor first, so that things like curly quotes are removed/replaced with the correct entities.

7. jmtaylor91
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ahh, thankyou very much! That must have been the only bit I c+p'd.

   Thanks again

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