Here’s the other Dutch member… I adviced clearing the htaccess file in the hope that the permalinks would revert to default, but they didn’t. I did some more searching and found a thread with this:
“…I’ll pass along what got my blank pages, posts and permalinks working again. I was trying to use just /%postname%/ as the permalink structure but when I did the whole Permalink Settings page went blank, along with my website. Then after noodling around I did the following and it worked:
1) Went to phpmyadmin and deleted /%postname%/ from permalink_structure in wp_options. (This brought back my Permalink Settings page in WP)
2) Set Permalink Structure to Month and name.
3) Used Custom Permalinks plugin to set my posts link structure.”
The database option that I’ve been thinking about, but then with (hopefully) the necessary information. There’s some other tips in the same thread, but see if the database trick does the job.
The OP made the following reply with more detailed info btw:
1st of all i thank Reginator! FIXED ??
I was Trying to follow your steps. It took me nearly 10 mins to find “permalink_structure” in wp_options
Just posting this since, people might have tough time with finding “permalink_structure” in phpmyadmin.
1.After you log in to phpmyadmin and choose the Database name from the Drop down on the left side. You’ll get the list on the left, just click on “wp_options”
2.You will get a list of options in the middle of your page.
3. Now this is the list in which you need to find “permalink_structure”
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the page you will have a drop down to choose the page. Jump to page 2. you will find “permalink_structure” there.
5. Now just simply click the pencil icon to edit the entry.
6. Here i didn’t understand ‘Reginator’ about deleting /%postname%/ from it. But what i did was, the 1st blank field under “value” had a number 33. I just deleted it and entered “0” and pressed the Go button to save it.
Ta daaa.. My permalink page was up and i was able to change the permalink Structure.
