Title: Previous posts link not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Previous posts link not working

 *  [thepianobar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thepianobar/)
 * (@thepianobar)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/)
 * Hello all,
 * I’ve been having some troubles with my Previous Posts link on my homepage. The
   link appears as normal “/index.php?paged=2”, but I get a 404 Not Found error 
   for this link “/page/2/”. Also, I’ve noticed that my 404 page is the default 
   apache error page and not my wordpress 404 error.
 * Here is some other info that may be useful…
 * [http://thepianobar.org/27/](http://thepianobar.org/27/) is my homepage.
 * at the root of my webspace, my index.php page has a php redirect to send people
   to my wordpress homepage so that [http://thepianobar.org](http://thepianobar.org)
   goes to my wordpress install. I deleted this redirect file to see if it was somehow
   messing things up, but got no other results.
 * I use a number of plugins. Permalink Redirect 0.5.2 by Scott Yang being one of
   them. But I have deactivated most all of these, tried again and gotten the same
   results.
 * I’m also using the default permalink structure and a modified Kubrick theme (
   basically just replaced images and colors).
 * Before I started messing around with all of this, it seemed like you could type
   in anything after thepianobar.org and if there wasn’t a file or folder of that
   name, it would just redirect you to my homepage. Somewhere in my messing around
   with this, that problem went away.
 * Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me out with this.

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 *  [rogerdodger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerdodger/)
 * (@rogerdodger)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388488)
 * I have the same problem, with the Classic theme. The front page “previous posts”
   footer button gives a “404”. Everything else is fine. I too tried plugins to 
   solve it, but with no result. If I find the solution, I’ll post here
 *  [rogerdodger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerdodger/)
 * (@rogerdodger)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388489)
 * Since this was only _not_ working on the front index page, I solved it by duplicating
   index.php, re-naming it as archive.php (which does not otherwise exist, with 
   the Classic template) and then edited the index.php page to remove the “previous
   posts” navigation element.
 *  [rogerdodger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerdodger/)
 * (@rogerdodger)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388490)
 * I now have a “follow on” of post titles & links that display at the bottom of
   the index page, offset by the number of posts I display on my front page (in 
   this case, 20)…
 * Tweak and paste this snippet…
 * **
 *  Earlier posts…<br>
    -  <?php
       $posts = get_posts(‘numberposts=20&offset=20’); foreach($posts as 
      $post) : ?>
    - .
    -  <?php endforeach; ?>
 * **
 *  [rogerdodger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerdodger/)
 * (@rogerdodger)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388491)
 * oops, this forum isn’t “code posting friendly”. There are bits that don’t display.
   Oh well. You can read up on the idea here…
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts)
 *  [RedSkelington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redskelington/)
 * (@redskelington)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388505)
 * I’m having a similar problem to this on the archive pages. The previous_posts_link(%
   category%/page/2/) is producing a 404 error. Oddly this is working ok on one 
   blog, but not on another and I can’t see any immediately obivous cause.
 * The site only displays category archives (with different sections of the site
   being defined by categories) – you can see an example here: [http://www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk/catalogue](http://www.rockcandyrecords.co.uk/catalogue).
   Its using the %category% in the permalink structure.
 * Anyone have any idea what might be up here?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [RedSkelington](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redskelington/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/previous-posts-link-not-working/#post-388505)
 * Status: not resolved

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