Title: Static Page   Permalink
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Static Page Permalink

 *  [marketingsyndrome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketingsyndrome/)
 * (@marketingsyndrome)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/)
 * Hello,
    I’m using a permalink of /%post%/
 * When I do that, all my posts are working fine, but the static page isn’t working.
   I tried with putting some numbers too, but doesn’t work either.
 * Is there something that I need to do with .htaccess manually to fix this problem?

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 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235084)
 * [Using Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) does not list
   a %post% template for permalinks. You might try %post_id% instead.
 *  [kickass](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kickass/)
 * (@kickass)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235085)
 * When you used the admin panel to set up your permalink, did it say something 
   like this down near the bottom of the page?
    “If your .htaccess was writable 
   we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules
   you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a
   to select all.”
 * If it did, then you have to create an .htaccess file **in your main WordPress
   directory** and copy/paste the info from the textbox below the statement I quoted
   into that new.htaccess file and save it. Some hosts don’t “show” any .htaccess
   or allow uploads through ftp (my host is one of them) so you have to instead 
   use the cpanel or other filemanager access to create/update this file.
 *  Thread Starter [marketingsyndrome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marketingsyndrome/)
 * (@marketingsyndrome)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235126)
 * yes, it updated .htaccess automatically. and I meant %postname% not %post% sorry.
 * hmmm anyone else?
 * Thanks
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235151)
 * Pages aren’t posts, so %postname% won’t work for them. Pages are referred to 
   by %page_name%. WordPress should have generated rules for %page_name%, to refer
   to all your static pages.
 *  [linkage](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkage/)
 * (@linkage)
 * [20 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235728)
 * For what it’s worth, I have the same problem. I don’t have any rules in my WP-
   generated .htaccess file which support %page_name%. I’m not quite sure how to
   do these manually, but I can probably figure this out. Maybe.
 * If I ever have to fiddle with my permalink structure in the future (unlikely),
   it would be really nice if WP took care of that kind of thing automatically.
 * Is this something that’s occuring only for some people and not others, or is 
   it widespread?
 *  [chewxy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chewxy/)
 * (@chewxy)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235750)
 * I’d like to bump this, as I have a similar problem. %Postname% is not working
   for any of my new pages. I mean, like, all the pages created AFTER I’ve updated
   my permalink structure all goes into 404.
 * Any idea how to solve this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [chewxy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chewxy/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/static-page-permalink/#post-235750)
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