Title: Confirmation link is wrong (solved, LOL) Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Confirmation link is wrong (solved, LOL) * Resolved [Nyaasu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nyaasu/) * (@nyaasu) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/) * Ignore my post. I’ve tested it for the last time and – of course – it worked now. I’m sorry for bothering you ^^; * ———————————- * Hi there, I tried all the things you’ve told Fiona and Mike, but the links are still wrong. They are leading to a file which is somewhere else. * How it looks like: [http://blogname.de/post_notif/confirm/?email_addr=…](http://blogname.de/post_notif/confirm/?email_addr=…); * How it should look (I think?): [http://blogname.de/wp-content/plugins/post_notif/confirm/?email_addr=…](http://blogname.de/wp-content/plugins/post_notif/confirm/?email_addr=…); * How can I change that? * Thanks for your help ^^ Angelika * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/) Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/) * (@devonostendorf) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327859) * Hi Angelika, * No problem – glad you were able to get it working! * Take care, Devon * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327920) * I’m having this same issue I believe. But I can’t find where to change the URLs. * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327921) * So the link in the confirmation email goes to a 404 page but it still confirms the user. The user preferences page also goes to a 404 page. I went through all the files in the plugin and tried changing the path. This didn’t help. I read your installation page but I’m using custom permalinks, which your page says should be fine. I checked it and this is my htaccess file: * # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!- d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] * # END WordPress * My website is ghyslain.com. I tried changing the base to wp-content but it didn’t work either. * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327922) * Sorry to bombard you… So I deleted the plugin and re-installed it because I could no longer get it to accept the confirmation link like it did initially. Now my single post pages are blank. Any thoughts on why this might have happened? * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327925) * I restored the htaccess file from an earlier version which fixed the white pages issue. * So let me know if you have any thoughts on the 404 page when the confirmation link is clicked and the user preferences page which has no preference settings, just a page title. * Thanks! * Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/) * (@devonostendorf) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327941) * Hi, * I’m sorry you’re having trouble with the Post Notif-generated URLs. To try to get to the root of the problem, I have a couple of questions for you. * First, are your plugins installed in the standard ../wp-content/plugins directory? * Second, which custom permalink setting are you using? Is it one of the “Common Settings” [on the Settings >> Permalinks page] or one you defined yourself? And, in either case, what does it make your posts’ URLs look like (please provide an example)? * Finally, if you have access to query your database directly, can you tell me what the option_value is for option_name = ‘permalink_structure’ in the options table? * Thanks, Devon * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327951) * Thanks for your response, Devon! * 1) Yes, plugins are installed in that standard directory. * 2) The permalink custom structure is /%category%/%postname%/ * 3) I may have access but I’m not sure. I need to look into that. * Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/) * (@devonostendorf) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327975) * You bet! * Thanks for the additional info. * I’ve been unable to recreate the issue you’re experiencing within my development environment (after switching to the custom permalink setting you specified everything still works as expected). * I assume you are testing this in a development environment of some sort that is not accessible to the open web, right (otherwise I’d just ask you to send me the URL to try to subscribe myself and debug from there)? Assuming that’s the case, would you please send me screenshots of both your Settings >> Permalinks page and an attempt to confirm a subscriber (so I can see the literal URL and the resulting 404 page)? My email address is my first name at devonostendorf dot com. * Thanks, Devon * [GhyslainChocolatier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghyslainchocolatier/) * (@ghyslainchocolatier) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6327988) * Well it’s actually live because it works even though it goes to a 404 page and then doesn’t have preferences. Here’s the link for signup: * [http://www.ghyslain.com/seasonal/coffee-cardamom-chocolate-chip-gelato-making-video/](http://www.ghyslain.com/seasonal/coffee-cardamom-chocolate-chip-gelato-making-video/) * Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/) * (@devonostendorf) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6328003) * Hi, * I am not seeing a 404 page when I hit the confirmation link following my sign up. I see the confirmation page with “Post Notification Preferences” as the title but no additional content. * Would you please email me a screenshot of the Settings >> Post Notif page, specifically the Page Settings section (with the first 3 settings showing)? * Also, would you please confirm that in the post-notif/public/class-post-notif- public.php file, in the render_preferences_page function, there is a line (it should be line #429) that reads: * include( plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . ‘views/post-notif-public-display-sub-prefs. php’ ); * Additionally, would you please confirm that the post-notif/public/views/post- notif-public-display-sub-prefs.php file actually exists? * And finally, do you use a publicly-available theme (if so, which one?) or a custom one? This may well be the result of theme code interfering with the plugin. I did a significant amount of testing with various themes, as I was developing the initial release of Post Notif, but obviously did not test every single one! 🙂 * Thanks, Devon * [Mugsy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mugsy/) * (@mugsy) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6328089) * I’m also having this same problem (confirmation link goes to a nonexistent page& 404 error.) * I don’t see where a “fix” is explained. Help please. * Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/) * (@devonostendorf) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6328091) * Hi Mugsy, * The “fix” you refer to is, I believe, referring to this thread ([https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-confirmation-link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-confirmation-link)), which resulted in the release of Post Notif v1.0.3. * I am guessing you are running v1.0.3 or 1.0.4 which means you shouldn’t be encountering what they were running into in the first place. * How are your permalinks configured? And does your .htaccess resemble that described on the Installation tab ([https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/installation/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/installation/))? * Are you receiving a literal 404 error where your server does not find a page to render or is it a WordPress-themed “page not found”? * In either case, is the site you have the plugin installed available on the open web? If so, would you please send me the URL to the page containing the subscription widget so I can try it out myself? * If you don’t want to post the URL here you can send it to my email (my first name at devonostendorf dot com). * Thanks, Devon * [afmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afmedia/) * (@afmedia) * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6328126) * Hi, * I’ve got the same problem : all post notif pages (confirmation and preferences) shows 404 errors. * – I use a genesis theme – custom permalinks : /%category%-st-malo/%postname%/% post_id%/ * Any help will be appreciated ! 🙂 * Thanks in advance, * AF Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Confirmation link is wrong (solved, LOL)’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/post-notif_dce1e1.svg) * [Post Notif](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-notif/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-notif/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-notif/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-notif/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-notif/reviews/) * 13 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [afmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/afmedia/) * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/confirmation-link-is-wrong/#post-6328126) * Status: resolved