Title: opening an existing post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# opening an existing post

 *  [avtechglobal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avtechglobal/)
 * (@avtechglobal)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/)
 * I have a problem in opening a new post which I just posted.
    It shows on the 
   main page in short, but won’t open in full. It says: error 404. Thanks

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 *  [jeezyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeezyo/)
 * (@jeezyo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973357)
 * check your permalinks. are you using a custom structure?
 *  Thread Starter [avtechglobal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avtechglobal/)
 * (@avtechglobal)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973519)
 * Please expalin and instruct me how to solve the problem.
    Thanks so much.
 *  [jeezyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeezyo/)
 * (@jeezyo)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973530)
 * see if this helps: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure)
 *  [mcleodjeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcleodjeff/)
 * (@mcleodjeff)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973684)
 * I am facing the exact same problem. I was upgrading from 2.6 to 3.1.1 and faced
   that problem. I figured it was because of the big jump. So now I’m upgrading 
   incrementally. I upgraded to 2.7 and had the exact same problem!
 * I have tried several different permalink settings (custom, default, different
   custom, etc) but it didn’t make a difference.
 * Any other ideas?
 * -Jeff
 *  [mcleodjeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcleodjeff/)
 * (@mcleodjeff)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973685)
 * Anybody still read this thread? I’m hoping someone has an idea!
 * -Jeff
 *  [jeezyo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeezyo/)
 * (@jeezyo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973686)
 * Give this a shot [http://dre.im/if-pages-return-a-404-after-wordpress-3-1-upgrade/](http://dre.im/if-pages-return-a-404-after-wordpress-3-1-upgrade/)
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/opening-an-existing-post/#post-1973687)
 * [@mcleodjeff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcleodjeff/) deactivate all
   plugins and switch to default theme change your permalinks to default and then
   upgrade in steps
 * You will find instructions here
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress)

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