Fustrating Permalink issues

Lots of troubleshooting tips at Using_Permalinks.

Try going to Settings -> Permalinks and setting them back to default.
Save.
Test.
Everything work as expected?

If so, go back to Settings -> Permalinks and change from Default.
Any messages at the bottom of the screen about manually updating .htaccess?
If not, save and check to see if .htaccess in the blog root directory was created/updated.
If yes, follow those directions.

Did that help?

btw I should point out that the actual problem url is https://www.oshawajazzandbluesfestival.com/media

This actually did not change anything. When I switched to default the media page dissappered all together.
When I went back and changed it the page came back and the post still did not published but was still saving it in the db as ?=32 instead of the custom permalink

I did not see any changes in .htaccess at all

handy,

I’m still trying to figure why it would write to the db as ?p=32 as opposed to the way I have my permalink structure set up as /press/%postname%/

is this really a permalink issue or a db writing issue

Sorry to ramble on here everyone.

I have even went into the db itself and changed the url of the post and it still does not even show up in the media section.

totally confused as to what is happening

here is the code if this helps

<?php /*
Template Name: Media
*/ ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

	<!-- CONTENT -->
	<div id="content_col" class="fl">

		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>		

			<?php		c2c_get_recent_posts (
				$num_posts = 10,
				$format = "
				<h3>%post_URL%</h3>
				<p>%post_date%</p>
				",
				$categories = '2, 3',
				$orderby = 'date',
				$order = 'DESC',
				$offset = '0',
				$date_format = 'l, F j, Y',
				$authors = '',
				$include_passworded_posts = 'false');
			?>

		<?php endwhile; ?>

		<?php else : ?>

		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>

		<?php endif; ?>	

	</div>
	<div class="clr"></div>
	<!-- /CONTENT -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>