Wordpress 404 error not found solution and fix

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wordpress error 404 is one of the most common problem people search on internet and today we have the solution

i have this problem before and search how to solve it and finally solve it , there is 3 reasons why you have these errors

the permalink : in your wordpress setting you have permalinks section you can change it to Post name or Numeric and click save and that’s it if the problem came out from the links every thing well be okay

if the problem still and if you cant login to your wordpress dashboard what you can do is change your .htaccess file based in public from your cpanel

login to your cpanel and go to file manager and go to your wordpress direction NOTE: you should apply show hidden files because .htaccess start with dot and it is hidden file , what you need to do is to edit the file and add this code into it and save it

the code

# 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

if the wordpress 404 error not found show again there is final step , and this step i guess is the best , what happened here is that your host WAF web application firewall block your request to upload photos and add new post and this solution will work for you if you have error 404 after you publishing new posts or upload images or files to your articles so contact your host support and they will solve this problem for you by whitelisting your ip

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