Title: Old internal permalinks 404 error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Old internal permalinks 404 error * [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/) * I have recently changed my permalink structure, on a long established site. Links from google redirect perfectly. * HOWEVER. If i navigate to posts dating from 2007 and older, the single pages throw up a 404 error. If i click publish on the post(effectively re publishing it) It will then display. * Any idea what is wrong? I can’t possibly re-publish every post. * thank you Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1732866) * Can somebody at least reccomend where i can go for help. My questions are rarely answered here. * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1732890) * I cannot re-release my new website until this error is rectified. I have hundreds of old posts that result in 404 errors unless i individually click publish again on every one. There’s no way i can do it with that quantity. * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733051) * It doesn’t seem to be related to me changing my permalinks. SO I ask, how can I get all the posts to show up without manually publishing every single one ( hundreds) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733052) * Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/ renaming your WordPress .htaccess file. If this works, then review [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) before setting a custom permalink structure back up again. * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733053) * Thank you for responding. I tried the above and it still hasnt worked. Old posts still render 404 pages. Any other possibilities? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733054) * Are the urls for these 404 pages correct? If ‘yes’, did you actually delete your. htaccess file before setting a custom permalink structure back up again? * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733055) * Yup I did that & the urls are correct, very odd. Only starts 3 years ago. The posts show up fine on my category archive pages. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733056) * Have you tried repairing your database? * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733057) * Tried that just now an no luck. My wp dashboard says 0 posts despite there being thousands. I have tried repairing DB from phpmyadmin and plugins yet it still says 0. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733058) * Do you have a recent database backup? * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733059) * Hmm not recent enough I have been rebuilding the site and have added a few hundred new posts. * Thread Starter [narkiej](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narkiej/) * (@narkiej) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733060) * Well I finally sorted it and here’s how. * In php myadmin I noticed all of my posts pre 2007 had a post_status of “Publish”. * I did a mass search and replace changing them all to “publish”. * And it worked a treat :)! * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733068) * Interesting. I wonder what caused that…? Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘Old internal permalinks 404 error’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [internal](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/internal/) * [old](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/old/) * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 13 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * Last activity: [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/old-internal-permalinks-404-error/#post-1733068) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics