After setting up this blog on WordPress 2.7, the time was for SEO Friendly URL’s and permalink structuring. With the default permalink structure, I could Easily navigate to older entries or Next Page at the bottom of my index page. But the same action gave me 404 error when I changed the permalinks to any of the custom settings for permalinks in WordPress.
When on the HomePage/ Blog Page/ Category page of your wordpres blog, there is a link at the bottom which helps us navigate through older entries, Few Blogs Have it as Next Page while few other text them as Older Entires while few like me use Page navigation plugins to give its s Page 1 2 3 4 >> type look.
Say If I wanted to navigate to the url domain/page/2 I get a 404 Error even when have around 15 posts in my blog.
I went through a lot of support forums and several methods were specified to overcome the isuues but a really simple tweak played the trick and I had no need to edit any wordpress files manually.
In Reading Settings Of the Settings section, Find the field that says Blog Pages Show at most and change the default value of 10 to 5… and this trick pays it off!!! The image bellow will help u better to lacate the field.
Change in Reading Settings to avoid 404 error during Page Navigation
This error can occur across any version of WordPress.
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Thanks. That worked. I then tried setting it to “11″ and that works too. For some reason it just doesn’t like the default. Best wishes and thanks again…
THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !!!! … I was having the same problem but your solution saved the day …. My pagination now works fine with your neat trick .. i don’t know why it works but it does !! yayy
You are Welcome buddy… really good to see that my tweak is helping others!!
try your solution, but it simply doesn’t work. still get 404 error
If its not working than check with the other methods… like your .htaccess file and other issues discussed on wordpress.org help forums
it’s unbelievable that after so many wp versions we still have this problem. Thanks, it worked great for me.
Thanks a lot, it works !!
Thanks! You just saved me from throwing my computer out of the window! No I’m kidding, but really thanks for this *quite simple* solution.
Earlier it used to 404 at 5th page…
after making it 5 its giving 404 @ 9th page…
Later I made it 1 and… it worksed fine for me…
when i used it with my blog, it worked
and that thing affect my blog search capabilities…
after making it 1…
i get only 1 search result displayed at a time !!
Hey Kedar…
These are minor bugs in wordpress and you will have to trail and error each of the possible solutions and checkout which one solves your problem… Ill surely mail you when I find a solution to your problem.. Till then you can surf around the wordpress community forums and try finding an answer to your problem..