Title: title-only permalink broken
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# title-only permalink broken

 *  [ashes999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashes999/)
 * (@ashes999)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-only-permalink-broken/)
 * When I change my permalink structure to custom, and put in /%postname%/, it works,
   and updates my .htaccess file fine; but the actual blog is broken, the links 
   give me an error 404 (not found), and if I edit the URL manually to put in /index.
   php before the post-name, it works.
 * But what gives? I set it up so it’s JUST the postname…

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 *  Thread Starter [ashes999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashes999/)
 * (@ashes999)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-only-permalink-broken/#post-456773)
 * Sorry, I realizise this is an ongoing issue with a lot of frustration for a lot
   of people.
 * If you’re past WP2.01, then I suggest you upgrade to the latest. My solution 
   was to paste the suggested .htaccess stuff wordpress suggested into the file–
   for some reason, even with the right file access (777, anyone?) it didn’t update
   properly.
 *  [elihorne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elihorne/)
 * (@elihorne)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-only-permalink-broken/#post-457244)
 * I’m having a similar problem, although your solution didn’t work for me.
 * I went so far as to export my XML file, reinstall wordpress on a fresh database,
   and then repopulate. My custom permalinks worked for a couple hours, but are 
   now back to generating 404’s like nobody’s business.
 * Anyone know whats up with this? I’ve tried switching my permalinks back to less
   non-standard format (/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) with no avail.

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [postname](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/postname/)

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [elihorne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elihorne/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/title-only-permalink-broken/#post-457244)
 * Status: not resolved

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