Title: Older post are missing. 404 errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Older post are missing. 404 errors

 *  821156
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-post-are-missing-404-errors/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-post-are-missing-404-errors/#post-825734)
 * Quick follow up. Going backwards thru time, “Previous Entries” does get me to
   the post so they are there.
 *  [weems](https://wordpress.org/support/users/weems/)
 * (@weems)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-post-are-missing-404-errors/#post-825766)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedev/)
 * (@mikedev)
 * [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-post-are-missing-404-errors/#post-825930)
 * 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/](http://www.mysite.com/category-name/),
   then clicked the “Older posts” link it would go to [http://www.mysite.com/category-name/page/2/](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/](http://www.mysite.com/category/category-name/),
   then clicking “Older posts” takes me to [http://www.mysite.com/category/category-name/page/2/](http://www.mysite.com/category/category-name/page/2/),
   which does exist.
 * Hope this helps.

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 * Last reply from: [mikedev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedev/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/older-post-are-missing-404-errors/#post-825930)
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