{"id":38956,"date":"2015-01-27T02:41:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T07:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=38956"},"modified":"2016-08-30T06:04:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T10:04:28","slug":"wordpress-how-to-deal-with-404-errors-permalinks-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-how-to-deal-with-404-errors-permalinks-issue.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress. How to deal with 404 errors (permalinks issue)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>This tutorial will show you how to deal with 404 errors (permalinks issue) in WordPress.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=18cDHcj5SJU?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to deal with 404 errors (permalinks issue)<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Some links may not work right away after the WordPress template installation, and you can get a blank screen, or (404 Page Not Found) errors.<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_01-300x193.png\" alt=\"WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_(permalinks_issue)_01\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_01-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_01-150x96.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_01.png 502w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how to fix this.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>1. Log into your WordPress backend and navigate to <strong>Settings -> Permalinks<\/strong>:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_02-300x188.png\" alt=\"WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_(permalinks_issue)_02\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_02-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_02-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_02.png 464w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>2. Make sure you have <strong>&#8220;Custom Structure&#8221;<\/strong> selected and  the format is set to <strong>\/%category%\/%postname%\/<\/strong> as shown on the image below.<\/p>\r\n<p>3. Save changes (do this even if your settings were initially the same and you didn&#8217;t have to change them):<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_03.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_03-300x292.png\" alt=\"WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_(permalinks_issue)_03\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_03-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_03-150x146.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/WordPress_How_to_deal_with_404_errors_permalinks_issue_03.png 849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>4. Go back to your site and check the links. If you still get the same error for some pages, they might be cached by your browser. <\/p>\r\n<p>Usually, pressing Ctrl+F5 (on Windows) will reload the fresh copy of the page, or you can do it by clearing the browser history.<\/p>\r\n<p>Thank you for reading.  Feel free to rate this article, and let us know if you have any questions. Good Bye! <\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=18cDHcj5SJU?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to deal with 404 errors (permalinks issue)<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tutorial will show you how to deal with 404 errors (permalinks issue) in Wordpress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":43317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[945,691,1805,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}