Title: Permalink problem
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Permalink problem

 *  [outfitideashq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outfitideashq/)
 * (@outfitideashq)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/)
 * Hello, sometimes, I will find my site’s posts either redirecting to the homepage
   or resulting in a 404 error. The permalink structure is at post name.
 * I’m able to get it back to normal after disabling all my plugins, switching themes,
   and reseting the permalink structure. But after a couple hours, I will find it
   not working again, and I don’t know the cause of this error.
 * Is it possible for some “internal” thing to go wrong? What are the possible causes
   for this? Could it be the .htaccess file, a database/myphpadmin problem, ftp 
   problem, plugin, or theme problem?
 * I want to figure out the cause of this, so next time it happens again, I might
   have a better chance at fixing it.
 * I’ve also received a message on my webmaster tools account saying I have some“
   possible outages” because of the “soft 404 errors” the web crawlers found on 
   my site, which must explain the decreased search engine traffic for the past 
   couple of days.
 * Any help or advice is great.
 * Thanks,
 * Grace

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 *  [donhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhoward/)
 * (@donhoward)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231235)
 * Hi Grace,
 * Is your site in multiple languages? If so, are any of the languages in something
   other than a Latin character set?
 * Don
 *  Thread Starter [outfitideashq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outfitideashq/)
 * (@outfitideashq)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231236)
 * Hi Don,
 * No I don’t think my site is in multiple languages. I haven’t done anything manually
   to the site to make it support multiple languages, however some people may be
   seeing the site’s content in their own language, because I saw a one user reading
   the content in a foreign language on a screen tracking application hooked up 
   with the site.
 *  Thread Starter [outfitideashq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outfitideashq/)
 * (@outfitideashq)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231238)
 * I have been reading up on this, and I think I’ve identified the problem as “soft
   404 errors” or “200 responses”. ([Article on that here.](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/farewell-to-soft-404s.html))
 *  Thread Starter [outfitideashq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/outfitideashq/)
 * (@outfitideashq)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231244)
 * Does anybody have any explanations or information regarding soft 404 errors? 
   Like what causes them? And how can they be fixed?
 *  [donhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhoward/)
 * (@donhoward)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231245)
 * Great! Hope you’ve solved your problem. If you have please post that it is solved
   here so the moderators can mark this as resolved.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [donhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donhoward/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-problem-86/#post-5231245)
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