Title: WP 2.0.3 Permalink Issue?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WP 2.0.3 Permalink Issue?

 *  [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/)
 * Hi, a couple of days ago I customised a date and name based permalink structure(
   i.e. removed /%day%). Now old permalinks erroneously end up in 404 errors. Checked
   codex on “Using Permalinks”, .htaccess, plugins and forum. [Has WP 2.0 messed up my permalinks](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/54340)?
   Fixes suggested there (topic 54340) did not work for me, either. BTW, all this
   happened after upgrade to 2.0.3 was applied.
 * Any help appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403824)
 * This mystery gets creapier by the minute. A couple of weeks ago I switched to
   the permalink structure mentioned above (i.e. removed /index.php), and Google
   had updated its index soon thereafter. Well, that´s what I thought. Now a couple
   of hours ago I discovered some visitors refered by aforementioned search engine(
   still? again?) try to access URIs with /index.php inside. So this morning I tried
   to switch back to 2.0.2 – but got an error message (something like “header allready
   sent”). So, no way back but still no solution ahead. Frustrating. Nobody having
   some useful hint?
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403826)
 * Maybe it would help if you posted your exact permalink structure here…
 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403844)
 * Yosemite, WordPress is installed in a sub-directory and permalink structure is/%
   year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/.
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403845)
 * I have no clue (yet?).
 * Did you apply the 2.0.3 tuneup plugin?
 * I know you said you followed the thread in your OP but did you check out [http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks#Fixing_Permalink_Problems](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks#Fixing_Permalink_Problems)?
 * After changing permalink you updated the .htaccess (or checked it had been updated)?
 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403859)
 * Concise and precise answer would be no, yes and yes.
 * Meanwhile I am looking up referals for each entry, then letting WP generate the
   ones where rewrite rules still do not apply (plus manually saving and uploading
   the code), and lastly putting a “Redirect permanent” into .htaccess. This seems
   to be a workaround, but is a real pain in the but. Any idea what could get my
   blog behaving normal again?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403860)
 * As a rule of thumb: changing often the permalink structure always causes troubles–
   for SE, for visitors, for those that have links/bookmarks.
 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403861)
 * moshu, I’ll second that. On the other hand I wasn’t changing permalink structure
   that often (- it was about four weeks ago that I got rid off /index.php), and
   robots come by frequently. So I’m not causing the trouble myself, as your rule
   of thumb might have suggested.
 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403862)
 * Ooops, it’s allready seven or eight weeks (/index.php). Never mind. 🙂 More ideas?
 *  Thread Starter [rifid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rifid/)
 * (@rifid)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-203-permalink-issue/#post-403864)
 * My Workaround doesn’t fix “Almost Pretty” permalinks. 🙁 Heeeelp!

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