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Post title link creates 404 Error in WP blog

by projectmarketing
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Hi, I keep getting a 404 Page not found error in my WP blog when I attempt to click on my post titles. This also occurs when I click on pages such as my privacy page aswell. Ive tried bit and pieces of solutions from the WP support forum to no avail. Can anyone assist please?

Thanks

John
#404 #blog #creates #error #link #post #title
  • Profile picture of the author SteveJohnson
    1st step is to go to Settings > Permalinks in your Dashboard and click the Update button to regenerate the permalinks. Make note of any error messages that you may see, and post back here.
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    • Profile picture of the author projectmarketing
      Hi, done that. The error page is the standard 404 Page not Found error.
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      • Profile picture of the author projectmarketing
        Hi its now fixed thanks. I had to follow the following steps:

        I would delete the .htaccess file you created
        then go to
        dashboard - settings - permalinks
        and choose a custom structure to test - like
        /%postname%/
        then save
        see if you get a save confirmation or code to create a .htaccess manually
        test links now
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        • Profile picture of the author bit twiddler
          This is a common problem. Wordpress states in their codex area the following:
          %postname%
          A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI (see Using only %postname%). Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons..
          %category%
          A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.
          %tag%
          A sanitized version of the tag name (tag slug field on New/Edit Tag panel). Starting Permalinks with %tag% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.
          %author%
          A sanitized version of the author name. Starting Permalinks with %author% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons
          .....................
          I had this problem and found that using /%post_id%/%postname%/ solved the issue. Remember to use the beggining, middle and trailing slashes.
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