Title: Custom Permalinks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Custom Permalinks

 *  [mpgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpgeorge/)
 * (@mpgeorge)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/)
 * I’m having sever issues with customizing my permalink structure.
 * I’ve chosen /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ as the structure, and I’ve set
   the permissions on the .htaccess file to 666. What happens is that the permalink
   structure is created (hover over a post title), but when you click on a post,
   it simply takes you back to the home page.
 * The website is : [http://www.conflictoflaws.net](http://www.conflictoflaws.net)
 * Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. I’ve been through codex.wordpress.
   org/Using_Permalinks to no effect.

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 *  [newflesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newflesh/)
 * (@newflesh)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/#post-423424)
 * I had that problem on my old host, and solved it by using Ryan Boren’s little
   plugin: [http://boren.nu/downloads/rewrite.phps](http://boren.nu/downloads/rewrite.phps)
   (
   paste it into a file and name it something handy like rewrite.php)
 *  Thread Starter [mpgeorge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mpgeorge/)
 * (@mpgeorge)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/#post-423427)
 * You are a truly wonderful person (in guess you hadn’t guessed by that unnecessarily
   extravagant compliment, it now works!)
 * Are there any disadvantages nowadays with using /%postname%/ only?
 * Many thanks.
 *  [newflesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/newflesh/)
 * (@newflesh)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/#post-423431)
 * Just happened to be at the right time at the right moment… 🙂
 * According to the codex there can be some complications with using postname only:
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Structure_Tags)
   
   If you try it anyway and problems occur, my guess is that they are easily fixed
   by deleting the .htaccess, but don’t quote me on that one.
 *  [krugern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krugern/)
 * (@krugern)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/#post-423900)
 * I am having problems with my custom permalinks aswell. This happened after my
   webhost had a hardware failure and my blog was down for merely a day.
 * Only default permalinks are working now.
    My custom permalinks looks like this:`%
   year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/`
 * [http://www.krugern.no/](http://www.krugern.no/)
 * when using my custom permalinks all links take me back to my frontpage.

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## Tags

 * [chmod](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/chmod/)
 * [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [structure](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/structure/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [krugern](https://wordpress.org/support/users/krugern/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-permalinks/#post-423900)
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