Title: polylang causes 404
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# polylang causes 404

 *  [r3inhout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r3inhout/)
 * (@r3inhout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/)
 * Hello!
 * I have upgraded my site to 4.6 and I kept getting 404 errors. I found out that
   it was due to the polylang plugin. When the plugin is deactivated, the pages 
   load normally but when it’s activated the plugin changes the url’s and I start
   getting the 404 errors on every page.
    I never had any problems with polylang
   in the past. Do you have any idea what I can do to make it work again?
 * Kind regards,
    Reinhout
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/polylang/)

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 *  Thread Starter [r3inhout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r3inhout/)
 * (@r3inhout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678178)
 * The solution is to deactivate the plugin, go to settings –> permalinks. Change
   the link-style to the standard and apply. Load your site in a browser window 
   and check if your site becomes visible.
    If it is, reactivate the Polylang plugin.
 * You can change the link-style back if you want, or leave it as is.
    Remember 
   that your site was indexed with the permalinks in a certain style so if you mind
   SEO it might be better to reset your style.
 *  [C.Giron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yadiihair/)
 * (@yadiihair)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678411)
 * that solution didn’t work for me, my woocommerce products return 404. i really
   don’t know what else to do. any help will be appreciate.
 *  Thread Starter [r3inhout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r3inhout/)
 * (@r3inhout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678412)
 * Yadiihair,
 * Are you sure the polylang plugin is the only one causing the problem? I switched
   off al my plugins and activated them one by one to see what caused the problem.
   There was another plugin (backupguard) that I completely removed from the site.
 *  [C.Giron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yadiihair/)
 * (@yadiihair)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678417)
 * r3inhout
    I deactivated all plugins but polylang and activated one by one and
   the plugin causing the issue is page builder, every time I activate page builder,
   polylang breaks and when I deactivate it polylang works great. So I downgraded
   to the 2.9 version of page builder and fixed the issue temporarily. So I’m waiting
   for them to fix this issue in the next release.
 *  Thread Starter [r3inhout](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r3inhout/)
 * (@r3inhout)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678418)
 * Hi Yadiihair,
 * Glad to hear you found a (temporary) solution. Thank you for reporting back here.
   It might help other people.
    Maybe you could also report this problem to the 
   page builder people? Maybe they’re not aware of this problem..
 *  Plugin Author [Chouby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chouby/)
 * (@chouby)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678441)
 * Hi!
 * The Page builder authors are aware of the issue: [https://github.com/siteorigin/siteorigin-panels/issues/258](https://github.com/siteorigin/siteorigin-panels/issues/258)
 *  [karpachoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karpachoo/)
 * (@karpachoo)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/polylang-causes-404/#post-7678446)
 * Same for here. This happens to me after polylang plugin upgrade from 1.9.3 to
   2.0 and there no database backup 😀 (I don’t use page builder)

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