Older post are missing. 404 errors

  • 821156

    17 years, 9 months ago

    I was just digging back through my older post and I don’t know when this happened but all of a sudden I can no longer pull up post from months back but get a 404 if I browse the direct link or go by way of the archive link.

    If I pull up the post in the admin console I see I still have all my post and can even edit one of the post which reports a 404 if browing to it. Search for a post also result in nothing found.

    I have no clue as to where to even start working on this.

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  • Thread Starter 821156

    17 years, 9 months ago

    Quick follow up. Going backwards thru time, “Previous Entries” does get me to the post so they are there.

    weems

    (@weems)

    17 years, 9 months ago

    Hi there, what a coincidence I am having this type of problem as well. I have just put in a new post with a page break and I can see the first paragraph but when I hit read more I get a 404 and this happens with all the other posts on the front page. Some are only a week old. I checked through the archive and have found this problem with that as well.

    Anybody got any ideas? I have had a look into the MySQL but it is double dutch to me.

    Ian

    mikedev

    (@mikedev)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    I had the same problem. Here’s how I fixed it:

    I have Settings > Permalinks > Custom Structure: /%category%/%postname%/

    What I didn’t realize is that the default Category base is “category”. Which means that WP automatically puts “category” in the URL before the category name.

    If I was linking to my posts in the category.php template using http://www.mysite.com/category-name/, then clicked the “Older posts” link it would go to http://www.mysite.com/category-name/page/2/, which doesn’t exist, according to the permalink structure.

    To fix it, I linked to my category view using http://www.mysite.com/category/category-name/, then clicking “Older posts” takes me to http://www.mysite.com/category/category-name/page/2/, which does exist.

    Hope this helps.

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