rlaughton

Well now I am really confused! I had gone through the process described above and all the permalinks worked with the POST NAME. A few days later the site has reverted back to the point that the direct links to the main sub-pages (nested pages) no longer work?

It appears to me that the links work when they are first created but then something happens over time as the site is processed and the links stop working.

Does anyone have any idea as to:

Can this be fixed or is it a permanent problem?
If it can be fixed, what are the steps?

Thanks in advance,
Richard

Added later after further review:

Is it possible that the information contained on this post about 403 has the answer?

I had put the following in the .htaccess file as I thought I had to do:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

So did I turn the re-write engine on when I should have left it off? Or do I need to change this .htaccess file to alleviate the problem?

Not sure what caused the problem but I was able to fix it so that the permalink to the sub-directories (pages) works okay. There must have been something wrong in the pages that I could not view in edit or live format. I fixed the problem by creating a new parent page (i.e. companies-2) and then moving the sibling pages over under that new parent. I then deleted the original “companies” page and renamed “companies-2” to “companies”. Now they work fine.

I would still be interested to learn WHY this problem occurred. I could not see anything in either of the original pages that was different than any other page. The only thing that I can think of was that the parent pages were created early in the site development and I may have made changes within the styles sheet later that were not compatible with the initial pages? Just a thought?

Got the Gravatar fixed finally! Now if I can find out how to fix the pages and permalinks.