Title: Random permalinks problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Random permalinks problem

 *  [restlessbtvs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/restlessbtvs/)
 * (@restlessbtvs)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-permalinks-problem/)
 * I really hope someone can help me with my site [http://www.restlessbtvs.com](http://www.restlessbtvs.com).
   My WordPress is stored in the folder /trivia/ and it’s always worked perfectly
   well.
 * I upgraded to version 2.0 from 1.5 last week and found the permalinks weren’t
   working at all. I decided to forget 2.0 after fiddling with it for a few days
   and downgraded back to 1.5. I had made a backup of my databse and installed everything
   from my backup but my pages are still not working properly. Occassionally they’re
   ok, but I often get random 404s. Sometimes if I refresh the 404 page the page
   is OK, but sometimes it stays a 404.
 * My site has over 1000 members and a lot of them are having problems accessing
   the site, particularly from bookmarks they’ve made. Some of them can access the
   site fine.
 * Help! The problem doesn’t seem to be constant at all – sometimes links work and
   sometimes they don’t. Is there anmything I can do?

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 *  [Austin Matzko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/filosofo/)
 * (@filosofo)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-permalinks-problem/#post-314922)
 * It looks like the settings for what directory WordPress actually is in are wrong.
   For example, on the homepage you link to above, some links point to a higher-
   level directory, which is impossible.
 *  Thread Starter [restlessbtvs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/restlessbtvs/)
 * (@restlessbtvs)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-permalinks-problem/#post-314933)
 * Hi – the homepage linked to above is not the home page of my WordPress directory,
   which is [http://www.restlessbtvs.com/trivia/](http://www.restlessbtvs.com/trivia/)
 * The page I linked to above is the only page which is reliably working at the 
   moment so I’ve put links to the main WordPress pages used on it.
 *  Thread Starter [restlessbtvs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/restlessbtvs/)
 * (@restlessbtvs)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-permalinks-problem/#post-315015)
 * Can anyone help at all? Is this an issue with my WordPress downgrade or do you
   think it’s my host? I think it’s WordPress as I’ve never had a problem with my
   host before and these issues began when I first upgraded to 2.0. Any help would
   be gratefully accepted as I feel at the moment as though a few years of work 
   on my site is getting lost.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [restlessbtvs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/restlessbtvs/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-permalinks-problem/#post-315015)
 * Status: not resolved

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