Title: Permalink Structure changed without my knowing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink Structure changed without my knowing

 *  [smkyle1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smkyle1/)
 * (@smkyle1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-changed-without-my-knowing/)
 * I noticed that my site isn’t being cached. Don’t know when this happened. It 
   was being cached by Google but now it isn’t. So I checked my crawl errors on 
   Webmaster Tools. I found that I had the following errors:
 * HTTP (1)
    In Sitemaps (38) Not Followed (9,206) Not Found (2,277) Unreachable(
   5)
 * I don’t check Webmaster Tools very often. I see that is a mistake that I will
   change in the future. Up till now, I was checking Webmaster Tools once every 
   few months. I think I was actually avoiding it because the experience is very
   frustrating. The reason I avoid it is because I see the diagnosis but don’t know
   what to do to fix the problem.
 * In this case, Webmaster tools provides me with three different downloads. I don’t
   have a clue what to do with the downloads so this is useless for me.
 * What I know is I set up a custom structure for my permalinks in my WordPress 
   website. The structure I’ve been using for at least a year is
 * [http://www.laprogressive.com/category/postname](http://www.laprogressive.com/category/postname)
 * I’m using the custom structure in the permalinks panel. Of course, the actual
   url doesn’t say “category” or “Postname”. It’ll show the name of the category
   and the actual post name in the url.
 * But when I look at the thousands of urls listed that Google encountered an issue
   with when crawling my site, the urls are not structured the way I structured 
   them. They have a structure I am unfamiliar with. It looks like this:
 * [http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/actual](http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/actual)
   name of the category/post name
 * I don’t know how this happened. I don’t know the ramifications of having so many
   crawl errors or not being cached but this can’t be good and I don’t have a clue
   what to do about it.

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 *  Thread Starter [smkyle1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/smkyle1/)
 * (@smkyle1)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-changed-without-my-knowing/#post-1851754)
 * Here are a couple of examples of the urls listed in crawl errors:
 * [http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/author/john-peeler/page/2/?wscr](http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/author/john-peeler/page/2/?wscr)
   
   [http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/political-issues/healthcare-issues/page/11/?wscr](http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/political-issues/healthcare-issues/page/11/?wscr)
   [http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/rankism/labor-social-justice/page/2/?cid=47899](http://www.laprogressive.com/ar/category/rankism/labor-social-justice/page/2/?cid=47899)
 * I’ve have the permalinks structured in such a way that I thought the urls listed
   above would look like the ones below:
 * [http://www.laprogressive.com/author/john-peeler/page/2/](http://www.laprogressive.com/author/john-peeler/page/2/)
   
   [http://www.laprogressive.com/category/progressive-issues/page/11/](http://www.laprogressive.com/category/progressive-issues/page/11/)
   [http://www.laprogressive.com/category/rankism/labor-social-justice/page/2/](http://www.laprogressive.com/category/rankism/labor-social-justice/page/2/)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-changed-without-my-knowing/#post-1851755)
 * Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting. If this works,
   then review [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) before
   setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-changed-without-my-knowing/#post-1851755)
 * Status: not resolved

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