Go to your WP Admin Settings->Permalinks and select a permalink option. Then click save.
This flushes out WordPress’ redirects and can often fix issues like what you’re seeing.
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crisso
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Ok that worked. So I guess I am unable to make a custom URL as it states after my webpage name. I guess the numbers and letters that they have as a default will have to do….:(
Thanks for your help 🙂
Crisso,
Are you wanting to use the category name or the post name in the URL instead of the default post ID?
This happened to me and I had to make sure that the host had enabled mod_rewrite and that an .htaccess file was present in the same directory as my WordPress installation. Once I took care of both of those, it worked perfectly.
@crisso,
The post ID permalink is not very pretty.
You should be able to change the URL structure to almost anything you want. Like @brandon stated – you need something called mod_rewrite enabled (most hosts have this enabled) and WP needs to be able to write to .htaccess. Then you can adjust the site URL, cat/tags URL, and change/update permalinks.
You can read about permalinks here http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
