Why is wordpress telling people my pages don't exist??

Thanks again. I’m going to read the article you posted right now.

My host says they DO get the error message on that page… but it’s not showing up in the error logs!

your pages looks fine , no problem on my browser..

It would be wise if you leave your 404 page with the default message on it. Like page not found. The way it is , it’s more disoriented.
Just a thought ??

It would be a good idea IF you have a Google account, You can check there for more details about your pages.
If you have a account, just go to web masters tool and select diagnostics and select crawler errors. There you will find your error pages..

But this will work only if you have sitemaped your pages, not sure but have a look.
If you have issues with the web masters tool let me know.

For how to sitemap , i have a simple tutorial here is the link,
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-to-create-a-xml-sitemap-for-you-website
But maybe im going to far and confusing you, sorry just trying to help.

My host says they fixed the problem…

Can you all see the page now? https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/2011/12/05/deep-dish-cinnamon-roll-pie/
I hope so!!!

Hair-but: lol, that “gnarley dude” message actually IS wordpress’s default 404 page! Weird, I know!

I can see the cinnamon-roll post in Chrome now!

My host says they fixed the problem…

Hallelujah! So what was it? Not only are we all dying of curiosity it might help out someone else in the future if you let us know what the issue was. ??

yes we can see it lol ??

zoonini:
They actually still don’t know what caused it in the first place (scary!) but they were able to finally fix it by first restoring the database… and then, when there were still errors, they fixed the wp3 total cache, which was apparently caching incorrectly. But when they tried to fix the total cache before restoring the database, it didn’t fix the issue, so the first problem wasn’t a fault of the caching plugin. Since no one knows what first caused the issue, I’m worried I’ll repeat the mistake that made it happen… but in any case, I am so so grateful for all the help of everyone here on this board. (Oh, and I tried to return the favor by looking to see if I could solve someone else’s question on this board… I didn’t know the answer to a single problem. I have a LOT to learn about computers!)

Wow, what a story! So glad it’s fixed now and good for you for being persistent with your host. (And you’re so sweet to look for questions to help answer.)

I’m going to mark this thread as resolved now – if anything crops up in the future feel free to start a new thread… but hopefully things will be uneventful for a while!