Wordpress Tip: Single Posts Showing as 404 Error

by ParisB on July 2, 2009

From the many ups and downs I’ve had with Wordpress and server issues recently, I’ve learnt a couple of things. Solving a 404 error on single posts is one.

If your Wordpress site is up and running but you can’t view any single posts because of a 404 error page, try this:-

  • Go to Settings on your Wordpress Dashboard
  • Go to Permalinks
  • If you are running fancy permalinks (with date and post title) don’t change anything and just hit the update button.

For some reason, this miraculously cures your wordpress of any ailment it might be facing and single posts should load as normal again.

Thus far, its worked for me but if it doesn’t then it might be a deeper problem.

Hope this helps someone.

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