Title: Permalink Failure
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink Failure

 *  [janmichaelguzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janmichaelguzman/)
 * (@janmichaelguzman)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-failure/)
 * Hey community,
    I have tried to scour these forums and the internet at large 
   to find the answer to my problem, but to no avail. I am attempting to use WP’s
   permalink option but am having a quirky error that I cant seem to tackle.
 * I am using the /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ option to rewrite the urls. The
   issue comes up when I try to access a category ( ie /category/food/) the permalink
   rewrites it to the date followed by the category (ie /10/11/food/ )
 * To make it more annoying, this doesn’t happen immediately after setting the permalink
   options. The switch seems to happen after I update a page.
 * To fix it i can reset the permalink options to the default selection (?p=1) and
   then choose the /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/ option again. This fixes the issue
   temporarily but then the problem reverts.
 * I’ve contacted my host, and kept an eye on the htaccess file (which is not being
   rewritten by anything). GoDaddy says that it is most likely an issue with WP.
   I am at my wits end can anyone please help me. My client is expecting this site
   to go live on Monday.

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 *  Thread Starter [janmichaelguzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janmichaelguzman/)
 * (@janmichaelguzman)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-failure/#post-1757637)
 * Any ideas?

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 * Last reply from: [janmichaelguzman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/janmichaelguzman/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-failure/#post-1757637)
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