How To Fix WordPress 404 Error - Broken Links
How To Fix WordPress 404 Error - Broken Links
No one likes a 404. Josh shows us how to fix a common WordPress permalink issue, when you click on a link and get a 404 error, page not found.
In This Video You’ll Learn:
What is causing broken links in WordPress
Why am I getting a 404 error in WordPress
How to fix broken WordPress Permalinks
How to Reset WordPress Permalinks
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2.959 -> Hey everyone, this is Joshua with
HostGator.
6.69 -> Today, I'll share how to resolve an issue on your
WordPress site when you start
9.63 -> clicking links or blog posts and it resolves
into a 404 Page Not Found error.
14.34 -> There's a few different ways that you
could have gotten here. You can manually
16.92 -> change the Permalink structure inside
your WordPress admin, or you could have
20.699 -> installed a plug-in that modified the
Permalink structure automatically.
24.48 -> Since there's a few different causes for this error,
26.5 -> I'm gonna show you the best way to fix it today.
So let's get started.
30.39 -> The first thing I need to do is get logged in to my
hgtestingaccount.com/wp-admin
35 -> by pasting that URL here. Then login with the username and password that
41.3 -> was created during install, and we'll get logged in.
45.62 -> Now we're in the WordPress back-end.
This is where we can manage the
49.14 -> settings of our site itself. So let's go
down here and take a look at the
52.649 -> Permalink structure under the Settings
tab and click on 'Permalinks'.
60.6 -> Now you can see here down at the bottom I've got
a custom structure that's set.
65 -> This could either have been done in
development, or it could have had a
67.799 -> plug-in that modified my Permalink
structure. So the first thing that we
70.95 -> want to do is take note of what it's
currently set to.
74.31 -> I'm going to copy this setting over into a different tab just to save it in case I ever
77.909 -> want to revert it back. And then we'll change the custom structure back to Plain.
82.6 -> Just so we can get our pages back up
and our visitors can see our website.
87.21 -> Once it's back to Plain, we can scroll down here
and click 'Save Settings' and save our changes.
92.3 -> Now back up at the top we've got
a green bar that says
96.9 -> the Permalink structure has been updated. So now let's
give it a shot and let's test.
104.649 -> You can take the domain itself copy it into
a new tab. As you can see here at the bar
110.4 -> it still shows that you're logged in, and
that's okay we can still do our testing.
115.6 -> We'll click 'New Page' now and see
if we can get the link.
121.009 -> Awesome, I can see the new page that I've created.
My menu is working, my blog posts
124.9 -> are working, and I no longer have a 404 Page Not Found error.
128 -> So you see it's a simple way to fix this.
130.094 -> We also have a Knowledge Base
article that I'm gonna post in the
131.989 -> description of this video. That will also
help you to go through this process.
135.6 -> I think that covers it. Thanks
for watching.
137.88 -> I hope you found this video enjoyable.
139.3 -> If you have any questions or
comments please leave them below, and subscribe for more helpful videos.
145.3 -> Thanks, y'all!
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghuC_HQwHNw