WordPress Upgrade: 404 Issues

suskanchan · Member · Jun 17, 2014 at 12:54 pm
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Hi Team,

I had upgraded my blog (webproactive.wordpress.com) to my self-hosted blog (susanta.com).

Although domain name is redirecting now, but but most of post URLs in my old blog are getting 404 errors. Is there a way I can fix this so I can avail the SEO benefits?

They call you Happiness Engineers. So I hope you won’t let me down. :)

Thanks,

Sushant

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
timethief · Member · Jun 17, 2014 at 7:37 pm
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Did you chnage the permalink structure on the self hosted site from being the same as what it is at WordPress.com? If you do that then you break all the links.
jeremeylduvall · Member · Jun 17, 2014 at 11:02 pm
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Hi Sushant,

In order for the Site Redirect to work reliably and correctly, you’ll need to change the permalinks to match WordPress.com permalinks. On your self-hosted site, navigate to Settings -> Permalink and change the permalink structure to Day and Name (http://example.com/2014/06/17/sample-post/). The links should begin working correctly then!
aussieinparis · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 10:42 am
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Hi Jeremey. I have the same issue but I even have the option ‘permalinks’, Who I can contact to help me in?? This issue is been more than two months without any solution.
suskanchan · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 11:19 am
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Guys, I have found a solution to my problem. So I would like to share it with you here.

On Google Webmaster Tools, I got a lot of links showing 404 errors. One of them was the following links:

http://webproactive.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/5-ways-to-figure-if-you%E2%80%99re-an-internet-addict/

I shared this issue with my WordPress developer who recommended the following fix:

Prior to this fix, the above link was point to a 404 error showing this page.

My friend told me to 301 redirect the second URL to the current page of my website.

So using a 301 redirect plugin, I 301 redirect all my outdated URLs to their respective current URLs.

Now they are working fine. Should Webmaster Tools show any other links in future, I will fix it the same way.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
jeremeylduvall · Member · Jun 19, 2014 at 2:59 pm
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@Sushant – That’s definitely another option. I’m glad you found something that works!

@aussieinparis – I don’t see a redirect upgrade on your account. Can you let me know what site you’re redirecting and where you’re redirecting it to?
aussieinparis · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 1:35 pm
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Hi Jeremey,
in fact, my site isn’t re-directy anywhere. But I have so many posts missing. Also My posts don’t link through
For example, i recently wrote a post on the food in paris.

when I search for this, i get the below error.
http://aparisdiary.com/2014/04/09/ou-mange-t-on-a-paris/

Do you know what the error could be?
Thanks in advance

georgie
aussieinparis · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 1:41 pm
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Hi again Jeremey,

So I just updated a post.. for Aparisdiary.com
Below is the preview link…
https://aussieinparis.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1374&action=edit&message=6&postpost=v2
This link is fine and ok to be pushed live.
However, nothing comes up on aparisdiary.com

Can you please advise me what to do here?
Would really appreciate your help.
Thanks in advance
georgie
jeremeylduvall · Member · Jul 2, 2014 at 2:41 pm
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Hi Georgie,

The issue here is that your domain (aparisdiary.com) is not pointed to your WordPress.com blog. It’s pointed elsewhere. The name servers are as follows:
```
dns1.stabletransit.com
dns2.stabletransit.com
```
Did you set this up as a self-hosted blog?

You’re currently publishing the posts to aussieinparis.wordpress.com. However, when you visit that page, you’re automatically redirected to your mapped domain aparisdiary.com, which is a self-hosted site it looks like. As a result, you would need to add those posts directly to the self-hosted site via the log-in here:

http://aparisdiary.com/wp-admin

Alternatively, you could change the name servers on your domain to point back to WordPress.com. In that case, you would just need to add the posts as you are now at aussieinparis.wordpress.com. To point your domain back to WordPress.com, please change your name servers as described here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/#how-to-change-your-name-servers
aussieinparis · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 7:08 am
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Hi Jeremey,
Thanks so much for your correspondence.= )
Yes, my blog is self hosted (with Laughing Squid).
So I logged onto -http://aparisdiary.com/wp-admin
And all the menu options to post blogs, is missing.
All I have there is ‘Dashboard’ which gives update on WP news and the WP blog. I have ‘profile’ which shows my account name etc.

Do i need to download the new version of work press 3.9.1? Is this why everything is missing? at the top of the screen, I have reminder to download the 3.9.1…

Once i have the interface, where I can actually access blogs and pubish them, i have no problem to transfer the data over.
If I give you logins, can you help me with this?
Thanks kindly for you help,
George
raincoaster · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 7:49 am
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We cannot assist with WordPress.ORG software. You need to be at their forums for help with that version of the software.
jeremeylduvall · Member · Jul 6, 2014 at 3:53 pm
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Hi George,

Unfortunately, as Raincoaster mentioned, this forum is for WordPress.com-hosted blogs so I’m limited in how much I can help. It sounds like the issue is your user role. If you’re set to a role lower than administrator, you’ll be missing many of the options on the Dashboard. You can read more about user roles here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/

Is there another user on the blog that is set as the owner perhaps leaving you as an author user role?

Also, just a note of precaution, please do not post your login credentials in the forum!

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