Author page is not being found

You’re welcome anyway, Sir. But I’m still curious about what may caused the problem … ??

My activate plugins are:

1. Akismet – for spam protection.

2. Auto-hyperlink URLs – if this is not installed, ordinary URLs I entered were not getting hyperlinked.

3. Jetpack – mainly for the subscriber and email notification features.

4. Jquery archive list widget – a nicer, collapsible archive widget.

5. Postie – needed for post via email. It is not doing URL conversion.

6. Ultimate tag cloud widget – it is a nicer, smaller font tag cloud than the default.

7. WordPress importer – I used it to import from wordpress.com but I guess it’s not doing anything now.

That’s all.

I have not tried deactivating them, but I can try.

Thanks,

doug

Hmm, actually, none of the plugin is dealing with permalink structure, but you can try to deactivate jetpack, switch to default Twenty Eleven theme, and then try to use ‘pretty permalink’ again. See if it works.

Remember though, the author link or name isn’t even shown in twenty eleven. That’s why I changed themes for testing.

doug

Well, you can delete your .htaccess file and let WordPress create it again automatically and see if it solved.

Or, maybe you can try upgrade to 3.4 and see if the problem persist. I see that you are still using 3.3 right?

I upgraded to 3.4 this morning hoping it might fix the problem. I’ll try the other things you recommended when I get back from the store.

Thanks!

doug

Arie,

The contents of the .htaccess file just had comments in it:

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

In the meantime I guess I’m stuck with query URLs.

Unless somebody has any additional thoughts?

Thanks,

doug

Hey Doug…I’m not sure if you already fixed this, but here’s the problem & solution:

https://graemewilson.co.nz/wordpress-authors-page-404-page-not-found-error/