Title: Permalink and archive problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Permalink and archive problems

 *  Resolved [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spstieng/)
 * (@spstieng)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-and-archive-problems/)
 * * I’m using the following permalink /%category%/%postname%/
    * I have activated
   archive widget * I have archive.php * I have a page called archive, which uses
   archive.php as template
 * Going to my archive page, the link looks like this:
    [http://mysite.com/archive](http://mysite.com/archive)
 * In my sidebar, I use the Archive widget.
    The links in the archive list are all
 * [http://mysite.com/2009/11](http://mysite.com/2009/11)
    [http://mysite.com/2009/10](http://mysite.com/2009/10)
   [http://mysite.com/2009/09](http://mysite.com/2009/09)
 * Clicking these links only opens the frontpage without formatting.
 * Shouldn’t it be like this?
    [http://mysite.com/archive/2009/11](http://mysite.com/archive/2009/11)
   [http://mysite.com/archive/2009/11](http://mysite.com/archive/2009/11)
 * But clicking these doesn’t help either.
 * Any help appreciated.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-and-archive-problems/#post-1743430)
 * Unless you provide a link to a page demonstrating the problem, no one will be
   able to offer much in the way of specific help. In the meantime, 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 [Steven](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spstieng/)
 * (@spstieng)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-and-archive-problems/#post-1743727)
 * The code is still on localhost.
 * I found the solution.
 * Looking at some previous archive templates I’ve created, I manage to use the 
   right code. So all works fine now 🙂
 *  [theindustry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theindustry/)
 * (@theindustry)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-and-archive-problems/#post-1743904)
 * Hi Spstieng,
 * Would you please share your solution?
 * Thanks

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The topic ‘Permalink and archive problems’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [theindustry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theindustry/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-and-archive-problems/#post-1743904)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics