"Page not found" for page permalink

have you tried:

-switching back to the default theme (Twenty Ten) to rule out any theme-specific issue.

Hello t-p and thanks for the reply! ??

Yes, I did. Sorry for mixing up terms (that’s what you get for posting at 4AM :D), that’s what I actually meant with #8 (though I also did de-activate widgets and other layout non-standard layout elements). Actually, even tried a couple of themes, to no avail.

Make sure the Permalink that you set was recorded in the .htaccess, that is, make sure it is writable (not write protected). If it is write protected, change the permission of your .htaccess to 777 (or whatever works in your server) and set the pemalink again. Once the WP haas recorded the required code in .htaccess, change back the permission of .htaccess to 644.

Thanks again, but I already did that, too (#4). ??

Didn’t really think that would change anything, anyway, since if it was a file permission problem, posts shouldn’t work, either. But the strange thing is, permalinks really work on EVERYTHING other than the pages. :/

Reset your custom permalinks back to the defaults and then read https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks before setting them back up again. Especially the part about not starting a custom permalink structure with %category%.

I’ve never experienced any performance issues with using %category% first, but of course I’ve also tried different permalink variations. Sadly, not even the standard settings (Day and name, Month and name, Numeric) work.

Only thing I can do right now to get my pages to display is going back to default, and of course that’s not really an option. Then I’d rather go without pages at all. ??

Okay, I’ll take that as a “tough luck, no WP for you”? ??

Have you checked that mod_rewrite is running on your server?

Hey esmi, thanks for your reply.

Yes, it does – and it works perfectly well with EVERYTHING but the pages… ??

Ok – I know you’ve been through this before but try:

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin (sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems).

– switching to the 2010 theme.

-resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your WordPress .htaccess file.

Then switch things back on again in reverse order – custom permalinks first – and check the page links after each step.

(sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems).
And that’s exactly what happened here…

Renamed my plugin folder, reset permalinks to default, set permalinks back to custom – everything still working.

Renamed the folder back, started activating one plugin at a time, as soon as the links no longer worked, I deactivated the last plugin – still NOT working.

Reset permalinks, entered custom permalinks – still NOT working.

Renamed the offending plugin’s folder, reset permalinks, entered custom permalinks – everything back to working like a charm.

So it seems it’s that one plugin, and like you wrote it’s still causing problems even after deactivating it…

Thanks so much, esmi! I was about to get rid of WP alltogether and go back to hand-scripting (which would have taken a year or two with the puny 5-hours-a-week I’m left with as spare time :D).

Now I just have to take apart the plugin and look for the offending bit of code.

Glad to hear that you at least managed to find the culprit.

Any resolution to this issue, I seem to having the same issue. Although I haven’t troubleshooted it to a faulty plugin, I’ve tried just about every other step you have with no success.. Hoping you have some good advice hehe ??

Hi!

I am using a child theme for Thematic. I am using the custom permalink setting /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/. For some reason, when you scroll down and click “older posts” I get a 404 page.

I am using 1and1 and my mod_rewrite is on, I don’t know why this is happening.

‘ve tried-

deleting my htcassess, disabling all my plugins, changing the custom permalink settings to include %post_id%, every single plugin that exists, changing my reading settings.

the code in my blog template is

<?php
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => get_option( ‘posts_per_page’ ), ‘paged’ => $paged ) );
$more = 0;
?>

do i have to change it to match my reading settings which are 5 posts per page?

please someone help!!! I’ve been posting about this for weeks without any help! I’d be so thankful!