404 Errors – "Not Found"

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• 404 Errors - Front Page
• 404 Errors - Posts

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404 Errors – Front Page

By default, your blog’s front page is configured to display your latest posts. If you do NOT have any published posts (this excludes drafts), the front page of your blog will display a 404 – Not Found Error (or something similar, depending on the theme). This is common when users delete the default “Hello World” post that is included with their blogs.

To fix, you simply need to go to Posts -> Add New and publish a new blog entry. This will be added to your blog’s front page and replace the aforementioned error.

Your other alternative is to configure your blog so that it displays a static front page (as opposed to your blog’s latest posts).

404 Errors – Posts

This sometimes happens when a blog owner publishes a post with the current date, but then edits the post and changes the date of the post.

Each post URL contains the date published, and the link in your “Latest Posts” list will be wrong because of this. Go to Posts -> Edit and you will probably find the post. If not, the edited date is in the future, so make sure you visit again to read that post!

Of course, this may be caused by other issues; if you are still having problems, please contact support.

Last modified: October 23, 2009