Title: Posts yielding 404 error – Permalink issue?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Posts yielding 404 error – Permalink issue?

 *  Resolved [secampbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secampbell/)
 * (@secampbell)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-yielding-404-error-permalink-issue/)
 * I’m having an issue with my blog posts. (By the way, I’m using a Pagelines theme
   and the owner suggested I post this question on the WP forum.)
 * My blog page is here-
    [http://blazemarketinginc.com/blog](http://blazemarketinginc.com/blog)
 * When a visitor goes to the blog page, he sees them listed out (5 at a time, which
   is great), but when he clicks through a category and wants to read a particular
   one, a 404 error message comes up.
 * I believe the problem has to do with the permalinks. I’d like the pages of the
   site to have the page description in the url, which is why I designated the permalink
   in settings with a custom “/page”. That works great for the pages of the site.
   But this means that each post is designated as “[http://blazemarketinginc.com/pages&#8221](http://blazemarketinginc.com/pages&#8221);,
   which yields a 404 error.
 * Is there a way to keep the pages scheme for the pages and a different scheme 
   for the posts that would allow a visitor to read without getting a 404 error?
   Ideally, I’d like the posts url to have the headline of the post in the URL.
 * Thanks for your help in advance,
    Scott

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-yielding-404-error-permalink-issue/#post-1634390)
 * > which is why I designated the permalink in settings with a custom “/page”
 * Sorry but you can’t just add your own permalink structure tags. Try resetting
   your custom permalinks back to the default setting and deleting/renaming your
   WordPress .htaccess file. If that works, then review [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
   before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

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