Wordpress permalink help?

Hi,

Hopefully someone can help?

I'm using the custom permalink: /%postname%

All works fine but when clicking on an article where its: http://www.mysite.comj/article-name-goes-here , I get a 404??

Any ideas??

I can PM you the site (I don't want Google seeing it ehre )

If you could help it would be awsome!!!

Jake.

 

Wordpress does not recommend using just postname. This is what they say on it:

I'd go with /%category%/%postname%/

 

This is happening because although you've saved the setting on wordpress, it has to reflect the changes on your .htacess file which, by default is not writable by wordpress. Change your site's .htacess file permissions to 666, apply the changes again then restore the original permissions on the .htacess.

 

I think it's writable by Wordpress by default if you have the necessary permission on your server
Check the permission & make it as sylv3rblade said. If you can't have access to .htaccess on your server, then you can use Pretty Permalinks. It isn't pretty practically, but more seo-optimised

 

I never knew that. Although I have never had an issue with it.

 

it is because you have to add "/" after postname%

 

yes it is because "/"

 

Use like this ......./%postname% /

 

It was the missing / at the end, thanks guys!

 

For future reference, though this was just the unnecessary slash in the field, I felt it worth it to comment on sylv3rblade's suggestion just in case anyone turns up here from the search engine. If you come across this error, it should have also outputted some code and gave a tip about the file being writable. This code is your typical fail-safe .htaccess file once you go to set that setting - if you don't have this, you need to upload it. If you didn't have the problem, you already have rewrites. .htaccess is simple to create if you are using windows but you need to use save-as to save it (can't rename xx.filetype to .????) because it might say you need a prefix before an extension. After you've pasted the bit of code wordpress gave you and saved a .htaccess, just upload it.

This was just for the random dude who finds this any time between now and the end of the internet and is scratching his head saying "mine doesn't have a slash"

 

paste ur permalink code in .htaccess file change permission 666 of .htaccess file.

if does not work pm me ur site url

 

Try out using this /index.php/%postname%/