After WP moved from subdirectory to root, some links broken

Try using https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/velvet-blues-update-urls/

You can put the permalink settings back to post name from plain and that should fix the problems you are having with the slider.

If not, then you may need to edit the slider manually to fix the problem. Same with the links to the articles.

Hope this helps.

Thanks. Should I assume that the Velvet Blues plugin will work the same even though this isn’t from one old domain to a new domain? It’s from a subdirectory to the root directory of the same domain.

Thanks, Davood. I did try switching to post name from plain. Every time I made that change, all menu links, slider links and story links failed. I will try again. But I may use the plugin suggested by the moderator. Thanks for your offer of assistance.

@gburgan I actually forgot about that plugin myself. It has helped me a couple of times with this same exact issue. Once you have used it you should be able to change back to post name from plain and it will work correctly!

Always happy to help. Do not hesitate to post your questions here thats what the forums are here for! ??

Yes, the plugin will help you change from any old base URL to a new base URL.

Well, that was quick – results were 127 changes made. Sounds about right. When I hover over a link (example: https://www.andpi.org/news), while in post name permalink mode, it’s pointing to the write address… and the permalink says the same thing on the page in edit mode… but I still get a 404.

Ugggh. This makes no sense.

Page is https://www.andpi.org/news
Permalink is set to post name
Permalink on page editor view is https://www.andpi.org/news
Link on hover is https://www.andpi.org/news

Result of clicking link: 404

????

Could you please share your htaccess code using https://pastebin.com/

I no longer have an .htaccess code in my root directory. I’ve check to make sure Filezilla is forced to show hidden files and it’s not there.

I have the file on my desktop from where I downloaded it months ago. I tried to upload it, copy and paste it, but I keep getting an error msg in Filezilla “prohibited file name” “Critical file transfer error”

This is the code that I’m trying to upload but can’t

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Who are you hosted with?

WordPress usually creates the file automatically when you save the permalinks setting page but some hosts do not support htaccess cause of their configuration.

Yahoo Smallbusiness…now called Aabaco.

The file was there when everything was in the subdirectory… when I moved everything, it didn’t copy over. So they allow it in the subdirectory but not the root?

I have never worked with the Yahoo servers. I do know that some server use a special type of redirect to hide subdirectories though.

I am afraid I can not be of any more help on this but I am sure someone else here in the forums has experienced this and can help.

OK. Thanks for your time. Much appreciated.