Title: Post not found error Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Post not found error * [scworldnetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scworldnetter/) * (@scworldnetter) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-not-found-error/) * I have a problem with a post. The post shows up fine in the admin panel, it also showed up fine in the blog for a few days. Now, I get the error “post not found”. * Even if I click on the button from within the panel, I still get the “Post not found” error. I tried editing and re-saving, it didn’t work. I also tried editing the permalink, that also didn’t work. I tried the shortlink, that also didn’t work. * I recently started using WordPress, and I really thought it was a very stable platform. Now I am concerned if I invest my time into it and the basic post functionality doesn’t work properly. The post is a very basic post, nothing fancy, no plug in features, no inline code. Just text and a couple of images. How common is it for WordPress to fail with basic blogging? * Can someone point me to which DB tables I have to edit to fix this? My guess is the permalink got corrupted. Unfortunately, resetting the permalink doesn’t do any good either. The post shows up as a link in the recent posts widget as well as in the admin interface, but all the links lead to “not found”. Searching also doesn’t find the article. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [scworldnetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scworldnetter/) * (@scworldnetter) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-not-found-error/#post-1847860) * I reposted it, and it’s fine when reposted. * However, I really like WordPress and would like to contribute to having it be stable. So I’ve left the corrupted post there, but changed the publish date so it’s not directly visible in the current feed. * If someone is willing to look at the old post, here’s the link to the post, it will stay up for 2 days max because I want to upgrade to 3.04. * [http://www.cloudforest.com/blog/1999/01/81](http://www.cloudforest.com/blog/1999/01/81) Short link: [http://www.cloudforest.com/blog/?p=81](http://www.cloudforest.com/blog/?p=81) * Content for this post is all there in the admin interface, it even shows up in a manual PhP query, just both the short link and the permalink doesn’t work. What’s even stranger is that any changes to the permalink end up dissapearing. I can change the 81 to a word, it saves, but when I close the admin page and reload it, it’s back to 81. * Thread Starter [scworldnetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scworldnetter/) * (@scworldnetter) * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-not-found-error/#post-1847867) * Additional info from the DB: * table posts: has an entry 81, all entries look normal, post_status is “publish”. * The only thing that is unusual is that table ID entry 81 occurs in between table entry 11 and 15. The rest of the table IDs are in normal ascending order. There are entries 80 and 82 further down where they belong. * I tried changing the post iD but it doesn’t make a difference, so I put it back to the way it was. * I looked at .htaccess (Apache mod_rewrite) and couldn’t find anything wrong either. I used the AskApache RewriteRules Viewer, couldn’t see anything wrong either. * I couldn’t actually find where the permalink specifics are stored in the DB. Are they stored in a flat file? Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Post not found error’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 1 participant * Last reply from: [scworldnetter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scworldnetter/) * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-not-found-error/#post-1847867) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics