Title: Permalink issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink issues

 *  Resolved [cowperc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cowperc/)
 * (@cowperc)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-10/)
 * I’m setting up my blog and have no experience with coding. My company had a 3rd
   party create our theme.
 * For obvious SEO reasons, I’m trying to change the permalinks from ugly (?p=123)
   to pretty (/category/postname)
 * When I go into the permalink settings from the dashboard, click the custom button
   and insert /%category%/%postname% everything looks fine on the main blog page—
   but if I click on any single post, I get
 * > Not Found
   > The requested URL /category/postname was not found on this server.
 * I’ve searched around, and it looks like this is a common problem, but I can’t
   find any solutions that make sense to someone with zero coding background.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-10/#post-1535999)
 * Shouldn’t have anything to do with the theme, unless the menus are hardcoded.
 * Are you updating .htaccess manually or is WP telling you that .htaccess was updated
   OK?
 * [Using Permalinks « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [cowperc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cowperc/)
 * (@cowperc)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-10/#post-1536015)
 * Frankly, I have no idea what .htaccess even is, and I’d already scanned that 
   codex page…I’m just clicking the options given to me from the dashboard ([similar to this ](http://p2p.wrox.com/content/sites/default/files/users/21/image/560549_fg0303.png))
 * I found a website that suggested adding /index.php/ to the front and that seems
   to have done the trick, though.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [cowperc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cowperc/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-10/#post-1536015)
 * Status: resolved

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