Title: Using customized permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Using customized permalinks

 *  [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/)
 * I’ve enabled the feature that lets you use custom permalinks in wp.
 * I chose mywebsite.co.uk/%year%/%postname%/
 * Now, I’m trying to edit the permalink on the about us page.
 * So I typed in mywebsite.co.uk/2011/about-us/
 * but it saved as mywebsite.co.uk/2011about-us/ and when you click ‘about us’ on
   the home page it says
 * Not Found
 * The requested URL /2011about-us/ was not found on this server.
 * Can anyone explain why this is happenning and what I should change?

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 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088947)
 * Why are you trying to edit the permalink of a page? That should work out of the
   box when you edit the permalink settings. I’m not 100% sure, but pages only get
   the pagename with most permalinks, so the result of your /%year%/%postname%/ 
   for the about page would be website/about by default. A _post_ with the same 
   title would be website/2011/about.
 *  Thread Starter [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088950)
 * The problem is, the permalink didn’t work out of the box.
 * Apart from the homepage, after choosing the option to customize my permalinks
   no other pages are working. Clicking on the different pages on the site, apart
   from the home, just lead to the message ‘page cannot be found’.
 * Thats why i thought maybe I should edit the permalinks of the pages.
 * I’m going to try to creta new pages and see if they work….
 *  Thread Starter [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088951)
 * Any page I create now, the permalink which is generated is not working.
 * How can I fix this?
 *  [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088953)
 * Are you getting a message on the Permalinks page telling you to update your .
   htaccess file?
 *  Thread Starter [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088954)
 * posts as well…
 * lucid-direct.co.uk
 *  Thread Starter [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088955)
 * yes i am,
    but I already did that once,
 * should I do it again??
 *  [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088957)
 * If you’re still getting the message, then it’s not recognizing the .htaccess 
   file. You need to upload that to the root again, and see if that works. Should
   be CHMOD 644 (the usual permissions) and if that doesn’t work, it may be that
   your hosting provider is not allowing you to use mod_rewrite.
 *  Thread Starter [tajo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tajo/)
 * (@tajo)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088958)
 * permissions are correct, I’ve contacted my hosting provider with the problem.
 * hopefully I can resolve this soon,
 * thanks
 *  [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * (@gangleri)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088962)
 * Perhaps mod_rewrite isn’t turned on.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 9 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Roy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gangleri/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-customized-permalinks/#post-2088962)
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