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Wordpress 2.5 Permalinks Problems

Apr 5, 2008 Computer, Internet, wordpress

As we all know, wordpress has come out with their latest product aka wordpress 2.5 . Being excited, I upgraded. Little did I know it would cost a lot of traffic LOST!

This is regarding permalinks setting. If before upgrading, your blog has been setup this way;

http://dungun.net/2008/04/05/sample-post/

In 2.5 it will be changed to

http://dungun.net/?p=123

I did not know that and it caused my traffic down to zero. So I changed it back to month/day setting. And what do you know… now permalinks doesn’t work. Just error 404. Now that zero traffic? Makes it 3 days in a roll.

But hey don’t fret. I found a solution to fix it up. All you need to do is create a file called .htaccess .

If you already had it in your wordpress ftp, just chmod it writable 777. If you don’t then create a new notepad. Rename it to new.htaccess and using your ftp program, upload onto your blog directory. Inside, rename new.htaccess into .htaccess . make it writable 777.

your permalinks will work again.

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2 Responses to “Wordpress 2.5 Permalinks Problems”

  1. Mira Says:

    April 6th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Whoa. Thanks for the solution. I myself haven’t upgraded my WP yet. I wanted to, but afraid that I would mess it up somehow. What if I accidentally deleted all my previous posts? =.=

    I really am a WP noob. Haha..


  2. Keroro Says:

    April 7th, 2008 at 2:22 am

    actually this wont happen if you already had .htaccess and make it writable.. i didn’t ,thus all the problems huhu..

    all your other permalink wont work as well if you didn’t have it.

    btw.. noob doesn’t change their layout every single week. u obviously not one lol