WordPress is one of the most powerful CMS. But due to some slight mistakes, it is might possible that you may not access your website. As a WordPress user, you need to be ready to handle different errors and technical glitches with time. The Posts Returning 404 Error in WordPress is such a technical issue, and one of the most common error. It is caused whenever your webserver unable to find the requested URL. In this article, we are going to show you how to fix WordPress Posts Returning 404 Error. Let’s have a look, how this error looks like in WordPress(Screenshot below)
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How to Fix WordPress Posts Returning 404 Error?
Before moving on let’s have a look at the root cause of this post returning 404 errors in WordPress. There are two main reasons for this error which are as below:
- Permalinks
- Rewrite .htaccess Code Via FTP.
We are going to discuss them in detail so you can understand easily how to fix this post returning 404 error in WordPress.
1. Permalinks
Mostly in this situation, users can access their WordPress admin, but they can not access their single posts and pages, there they get 404 not found error. In this situation, you need to fix your permalinks settings. Go to your Settings->Permalink and click on save changes
This step will update your permalinks settings. In some cases by updating the permalink settings fixes this problem of WordPress post 404 error. However, if this doesn’t work for you then proceed to next solution.
2. Rewrite .htaccess Code Via FTP
Firstly if you want to modify your .htaccess file, login to your server using FTP and open your .htaccess file which is located in the same location where other folders like /wp-content/ and /wp-includes/ are located. The best thing you can do is to make the file writeable for a temporary period of time. You can do this by right-clicking on the file and changing its permissions to 666. In case, if file is hidden, you can contact your hosting to enable the hidden files.
After opening .htaccess file you can replace existing code with the following (always create a backup before making changes):
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
3. Enable rewrite Module
Mostly designers and developers install WordPress on their computers using a local server for a testing purpose. If you want to use permalinks, then enable the rewrite_module in Apache configurations like XXAMP or WAMP
Try all the above solution to resolve the issue of post returning 404 error in WordPress. I hope this article helped you in fixing post returning 404 errors. if you have any queries ask me in the comment below.
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