Title: 404 Errors When Scheduling Post Updates
Last modified: April 9, 2018

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# 404 Errors When Scheduling Post Updates

 *  [lsilver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsilver/)
 * (@lsilver)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-scheduling-post-updates/)
 * We occasionally edit an existing post and then schedule that update to be published
   at a future time. This is typically creating 404 errors upon publishing. It doesn’t
   happen with content that has never been previously published – only updates of
   existing content.
 * Interestingly, the post is live on our blog loop but the link results in the 
   404.
 * The titles of the posts are being changed (e.g. 10 ways to 9 ways or something
   like that). Not sure if that’s causing an issue.

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 *  Thread Starter [lsilver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsilver/)
 * (@lsilver)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-scheduling-post-updates/#post-10166711)
 * I’ve been able to dig into this a bit more and it seems like a BIG ISSUE.
 * What I’ve determined is that if a custom permalink has been set for a blog post(
   we have the Custom Permalinks plugin installed), then when the post is scheduled
   for an update the original URL results in a 404 until the update is published
   or deleted.
 * I went back to old posts with the default URL, and things went as expected.
 * I then went back to those same old posts, updated the permalink to something 
   new, scheduled an update and the 404 happened until the update was published.
 * This makes the plugin unusable for us, possibly for others using that plugin 
   as well (I’m thinking it’s an issue with that specific plugin although perhaps
   it’s a broader issue that would impact *any* custom permalink).
 *  Plugin Author [Syberspace](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syberspace/)
 * (@syberspace)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-scheduling-post-updates/#post-10173737)
 * I’m not familiar with the Custom Permalinks plugin, but as far is I can see from
   quickly skimming through the code it uses the wp_postmeta table to save the custom
   permalinks. tao-schedule-update simply copies all postmeta for each post in order
   to create a 1:1 copy of the original.
 * You need to contact the developers of the Custom Permalinks plugin to have them
   ignore any post that is set to a non-builtin status.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-errors-when-scheduling-post-updates/#post-10173737)
 * Status: not a support question