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Oh for pete’s sake… You’re right, it’s a plugin (TD scripts). It’s so long since I installed it, and since I looked at my plugins, that I forgot it wasn’t a core feature. D’oh!

OK, but the problem wasn’t not finding the 404 page, it was not finding the permalinks. What’s the connection?

One other thing: for educational purposes, can you explain what the code in your htaccess file means? (Specifically, the non-standard part: “ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404”.)

What is that, and how did you know it would fix the problem?

Many thanks!

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Update! It seems to be working now. Thanks!

It didn’t work with your modified htaccess because I forgot to edit the RewriteRule line (my blog is not at the root, so I had to add the subfolder to the path).

Thanks bunch! Woo hoo!

Thanks again. that htaccess didn’t work.

Also, I tried deactivating my plugins, and that didn’t fix it.

Otherwise, I have not made any changes in some time, so I have no idea what’s causing this.

Thanks Alism! I switched to the default structure and everything came back. All permalinks were resolving. When I switched back to Date/Name mode, they all broke again.

I removed the htaccess file and it didn’t make any difference. Note that when I changed the structure back to Date/Name mode, WordPress provided a tip about updating the htaccess file. I made the suggested changes (which did not appear to be any different from what it already was) and that didn’t change anything either.

So it works in default permalink mode, but not Date/Name mode. What now?

Heh heh. Sorry about that… THANKS Whooami for the excellent advice! ??

Update: Somehow I missed it, but there was one WordPress table that needed to be repaired. It was repaired, and the blog came back. There was a small amount of cleanup to do, because the “Welcome” routine had run itself ten times, so I had ten bogus “Welcome to wordpress” posts to delete, ten comments from “Mr. WordPress” to delete, and my “About” page had re-created itself ten times. After I deleted all those, everything is back to normal.

OK, I did that. The wordpress database did not report any problems, but I have a database in there called “information_schema” (I have no idea what that is). ALL reported an error and it recommended I repair the database. When I tried, it gave me an “access denied” error!

Thanks for the info though… I think I’ve found the problem. Now it’s back to the provider to get them to fix it.

So duh! I went back to my old template and found the appropriate code:

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘« Older Entries’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘Newer Entries »’) ?></div>
</div>

(Changing “Previous” to “Newer” and “Next” to “Older”), and it TOTALLY worked.

OK, next stop, rocket science school! Thanks for your help!

Well, that would seem logical, sort of, but it doesn’t work. What I get LOOKS right:

<< Older – Newer >>

But “Older” points to the newer posts and “Newer” points to the older posts.

BTW, the way you describe the navigation is also in my templates, but at the top, and it includes the next and previous post title. I pulled that in from my previous template. What I’m working on now is the Older – Newer page links at the bottom of the page.

Oh wait — I deactivated a plugin (Category Visibility-RH Rev) and everything came back. Weird.

Thanks!

Follow-up question: I used Martinhipp’s code and it works just fine (WP 2.3.1), but I would like to make the text box a bit wider. Currently, when you drop down the list, the last few characters of some items are truncated.

Is there some way to make the box wider?

FYI: this problem went away when I rebooted the computer. D’oh. (Mark as resolved.)