Title: 404 error on new posts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# 404 error on new posts

 *  [Robin Lee Hatcher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robinleehatcher/)
 * (@robinleehatcher)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-new-posts/)
 * I am very new to WordPress and am not acquainted with coding. My site recently
   began giving 404 errors on new posts. It does it every time. Unfortunately, I
   am not always the one it shows it to. I will look and see it and think all is
   well, and then I will hear from a reader that they got the 404 error notice. 
   If I update the post one or two more times, then as far as I know, the issue 
   goes away. But again, I don’t always get the error, even though others do. Or
   the error doesn’t show up immediately after I post, but will show up an hour 
   or two later. The post excerpt will show on my Home page fine, but the link to
   the post may or may not bring it up.
 * I was told to deactivate all of my plugins. I have fiddled with that some. I 
   have turned off minify. I have resaved my permalink choice numerous times (was
   told this often corrects the problem). To no avail.
 * I have found information about this (three years old) on the forum of code to
   add to the .htaccess file. However, upon looking into that file, there are hundreds
   of lines of code. How do I know where to place this coding? Does it just go anywhere?
 * # BEGIN WordPress
 * <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 RewriteEngine
   On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule>
 * # END WordPress
 * My site is at [http://www.robinleehatcher.com](http://www.robinleehatcher.com)
 * I’m afraid I will break my site completely if I do something wrong, so I don’t
   want to make a misstep.

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 *  [vapor99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vapor99/)
 * (@vapor99)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-new-posts/#post-4195882)
 * Check your permalinks are on or off. And check the links that are being generated
   for each post/page. Personally I don’t think this is an .htaccess issue, and 
   could possibly be realated to your host provider and or server.
 * Cheers,
    Vapor

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 * Last reply from: [vapor99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vapor99/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-new-posts/#post-4195882)
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