As the headline said, when I changed the permalink structure as instructed, the “About” page worked instantly. However, I kept getting a 404 message for the “Archives” page.
Thankfully, I didn’t change the .htaccess page. Instead, I found this page on creating archives and about pages which was helpful.
- Log into your WP Administration panel and click on the Presentation link.
- Assuming you have the Cutline theme activated, you’ll notice a link in the sub-navigation menu called Cutline Options.
- On the Cutline Options page, simply check the box next to “Enable the Cutline Archives Page.”
- Click the Update Options button to create the Archives page.
- In order to ensure that your new Archives page gets published properly, you’ll need to click on the Manage link in the main navigation menu.
- Once there, click on Pages in the sub-navigation menu.
- One of your pages will contain the text “Archives” in the Title field - find that page, and then click on the Edit button for that page.
- Locate the Save » button (which resides just beneath the main text entry box), and click it. You’re done!
The only problem was that when I went to step 6, there was no “Archives” page. So I created one, with the text box blank, and hit “Save.” Still no go. So instead I hit the “Publish” button, and this time it worked.
By the way, the instructions appeared to be for WordPress version 2.1. I have version 2.2 installed, so that may be the problem. I hope this helps others with similar issues.
Update: by the way, the creating a “Archives” page tip came courtesy of PaulThology.
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1 john piercy // Jul 30, 2007 at 11:44 pm
thanks for your link about the archive problem
I’ve had to fiddle with mine as well
your site made all the difference
john piercy
http://johnpiercy.com/archives/
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