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Hullo again ??
Another update:
The next time I saved changes to a page on the website it removed my manual amend from the .htaccess file. When I viewed it it only had
# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress in it again :(. Even though I have the settings set to /%postname%/ it just seems to remove whatever’s there. V Strange

Anyway, to keep my manual bodge in place I have removed any write access to the file so that the links work in the mean time

I’d love to do a proper fix rather than this bodge – so if anyone’s got an idea of why the built in function is mucking this up then I’ll have a play around and see if I can get it working properly.

Right, well the only way I could get it working was to manually change the .htaccess file in the root wordpress folder to include:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

(I copied this out of the htaccess file at the old hosting)
I know this is not the way i’m SUPPOSED to do it – I should only need to use the settings in admin, does anyone know why they may not be working?

Not so urgent now though seeing as I the links are working with that manual amend….