page not found

Seems you have installed something that breaks your feeds. Did you recently change your permalink structure, install or uopdate a plugin?

hallo knut sparhell

id say yes to both answers, Ill go through the plugins disabling and re enabling them. to see if the problems there. But if its a permalink prob, i’ve done a few things, i got rid of the home page, i change my post link names often, if i see there not how i want them, and i think in the permalinks option in the dashboard i did something there as well. i changed it from 123 to custom as far as i can remember.
Could u please keep a check on this thread because if its not a plugin but a permalink i might need more help.

thank u

hallo

Ive have been through all my plugins and think that that’s not the problem, so its probably the permalinks. Does anyone have a idea how to check my permalinks till i find the problem, or better still how i can repair them.

lisa

Try resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting. If this works, then review Using_Permalinks before setting a custom permalink structure back up again.

Whet is your “Syndication feeds show the most recent” number in Settings – Reading?

Next is to check if the feed works when permalinks are set to default. The URL to the will change to ?feed=rss2 instead of the one with slashes. If they don’t, then permalinks is not the problem. Try the defalt theme.

But if they then work, try saetting permalinks back to the desired format and take lokk at your .htaccess file.

You may also delete or rename this .htaccess file to make wordpress recreate it. This happens when you change your permalink settings.

If still no fix, you must deactivate everything that is not core WordPress, including activating Twenty Ten theme.

hallo

i tried esmi idea and reset the permalinks to default, it didn’t work. i still get a page not found with my RSS buttons.

The “Syndication feeds show the most recent” is set at 10.

The last option i havent tried yet. by the way i use in my sites two diffrent themes but have the problem on all of them.

Hallo knut

were do i find my htaccess file. i work from within my dashboard and i don’t upload with a FTP

lisa

AAWWW

i have really messed up my sites somehow.
I have done all of the above except the htacess file.
I disabled everything and turned the theme back to Twenty ten then added the RSS button,
Still i get the “page not found” message.

Please help! i cant work it out

Now I see what your problem is on all your three sites.

You have no posts in your blog. A feed will only select content of the type POST to display. If you want to have a feed you must put your content in posts, not pages.

I am sorry I did’t catch this the first time I took a look at them.

Pages is a very bad place to put essential content, as they have no categories or tags. They also usually don’t have an author byline or a post date in many themes (theme dependent). They also don’t go into an archive sorted by year and month.

For anything that is new, or related to the time of posting, and when the content rarely shall change, because you would then make a new post on the sbject, use POSTS for your content. They will go into the feed. Only use pages for persistent information that you will update only when it is actually changed, like conact information, colophon and “about this site”.

Pages usually have a menu item associated with them individually. Posts go into cetgories, and you select a whole category of posts to display. You can create a menu item for each category.

Put back your permalinks, theme and plugins back and make a choice on how you want to use WordPress. These choices are either using WordPress as it is designed with posts, or cluttering you site with hundreds of indivudual, unactegorized “pages” without a feed.

Hallo Knut

i think u found the problem. I’m now trying to rebuild my sites. If it dosen’t work ill make a new thread.

Thanx for the great help

lisa