I was meant to post on this last weekend, when I starting seeing and error on this blog, but I was busy working on a new site.

I think it was Saturday when I was able to view my blog, but every time I click on any WordPress post on this blog, I got a 404 error – page can not be displayed. I was puzzled and didn’t know what would cause this. I certainly didn’t make any changes on WordPress settings and I don’t have at time of writing any non-default plugin. The only change I remember making was on Hotlink settings on cPanel to test stopping other sites using images from one of my sites. Anyway, I’ve disabled the settings as I was just experimenting with the option.

As you might expect, I Googled for “404 on page and post wordpress” and found the following report.

The reporter, Randa, apparently tried to delete the “uncategorized” category, but that wasn’t my case and didn’t answer why every post link I click on the front page is throwing a 404 error. After some digging, I found the solution by using the following easy steps:

- Login to WordPress Admin Panel
- Click on Settings
- Click on Permanlinks
- Hit Save Changes

As you can see, the solution is very easy and could perceive as silly, but it did work for me and that’s what matters. I discovered the above steps when I changed the Permanlinks back to Default, which resolved the issue. When I changed it back to Custom Structure, access to posts and pages still works.

Hopefully, the above will help resolve the same issue someone else is seeing without going through any radical solutions such as reinstalling WordPress.