Permalink issues

  • Resolved cowperc

    (@cowperc)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    I’m setting up my blog and have no experience with coding. My company had a 3rd party create our theme.

    For obvious SEO reasons, I’m trying to change the permalinks from ugly (?p=123) to pretty (/category/postname)

    When I go into the permalink settings from the dashboard, click the custom button and insert /%category%/%postname% everything looks fine on the main blog page — but if I click on any single post, I get

    Not Found

    The requested URL /category/postname was not found on this server.

    I’ve searched around, and it looks like this is a common problem, but I can’t find any solutions that make sense to someone with zero coding background.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Shouldn’t have anything to do with the theme, unless the menus are hardcoded.

    Are you updating .htaccess manually or is WP telling you that .htaccess was updated OK?

    Using Permalinks « WordPress Codex

    Thread Starter cowperc

    (@cowperc)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Frankly, I have no idea what .htaccess even is, and I’d already scanned that codex page…I’m just clicking the options given to me from the dashboard (similar to this )

    I found a website that suggested adding /index.php/ to the front and that seems to have done the trick, though.

    Thanks.

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