Wordpress Permalink: You should update your .htaccess now.

I was working on WordPress SEO of one of my client and first thing which I should be taking care of is permalink structure.

WordPress default permalink is not search engine friendly so to make permalinks search engine friendly I had to update it to some pretty permalink which should be search engine friendly. For any existing blog is you change your permalink, I would suggest make sure you use Dean’s permalink migration plugin.

So getting back to above point, some time when you change permalink, you need to update your .htaccess file to make those changes effective. This was the first time I found this issue, so thought of sharing it with you all.

Here is the message which I got when I updated the permalink:

You should update your .htaccess now. You need to add couple of lines of code into your .htaccess file and you can get it from bottom of WordPress permalink setting page after updating your permalink:

Copy the codes provided and add this codes into your .htaccess file and your internal pages will stop giving you page not found error and now your new permalink structure is updated.

This is pretty simple and I’m sure this will help you and many if stuck in such situation. Make sure you should do it with utter care, if you are not sure, I would recommend take expert help.

Tagged as: .htaccess, Wordpress Permalink, Wordpress SEO