Title: Permalink viewing problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink viewing problem

 *  [bill-nelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bill-nelson/)
 * (@bill-nelson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/)
 * Hi there,
 * I’m having trouble with my permalinks. I’ve installed WordPress 3.0 on a 1&1 
   hosting account (no shell access) and it went well with the exception of the 
   permalinks. I have 2 problems:
 * 1) The permalinks don’t show unless I’m logged in, which means that visitors 
   don’t see a permalink link.
 * 2) I’ve set the permalink format to custom, with /%postname%/ as the format, 
   but when I do see the permalink links they are still in the default format like?
   p=123.
 * As a side note, even when I had the permalink format on the default, the permalink
   links still didn’t show up unless I was logged in.
 * Thanks,
 * Bill Nelson

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 *  Thread Starter [bill-nelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bill-nelson/)
 * (@bill-nelson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1548943)
 * Sorry – forgot the link in case the problem needs to be seen:
 * [http://www.wezombie.com](http://www.wezombie.com)
 * Thanks,
 * Bill Nelson
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1548947)
 * i get to this post fine
    [http://wezombie.com/the-walking-dead-the-movie/](http://wezombie.com/the-walking-dead-the-movie/)
   which shows `/%postname%/` is working fine – and I’m definitely not logged in
 *  [Geoff Snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffsnyder/)
 * (@geoffsnyder)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1548966)
 * Sounds like the reverse of what I am currently dealing with.
 * After upgrading to 3.0, I added a page named “Contact.” I now no longer have 
   access to my front page, yet I can access all others by using page/# or using
   a permalink for each post.
 * If this is offtopic, I apologize as for I just came across this post and gathered
   it was similar.
 * [http://www.geoffsnyder.com](http://www.geoffsnyder.com) (which now redirects
   to the new page “contact” for some reason)
 * Thanks,
    Geoff
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1549014)
 * geoffsnyder
    did you perchance set the contact page to be static? admin – settings–
   reading
 *  Thread Starter [bill-nelson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bill-nelson/)
 * (@bill-nelson)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1549017)
 * Hi samboll,
 * Thanks for checking on that. So the permalink doesn’t show on the main page –
   just on the post’s page itself? I didn’t realize that’s how it worked. Thanks
   for your help!
 * Bill.
 *  [Geoff Snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffsnyder/)
 * (@geoffsnyder)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1549135)
 * [@samboll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * I tried both. After further testing, I found the issue to do with the .htacess
   file. I installed Urban Giraffe’s “redirection” plugin and made a few adjustments
   after allowing for the logs to generate. All seems fine now.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Geoff Snyder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geoffsnyder/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-viewing-problem/#post-1549135)
 * Status: not resolved

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