Community pages return a 404 after changing the base slug

marco marco 2 months ago Resolved

I changed the base slug from community to forum and now every community page 404s. The settings saved correctly.

I suspect rewrite rules — what's the right way to regenerate them?

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For what it is worth, the same approach works with the PMPro adapter — the membership side is identical from here.

This matches my experience exactly. The hard part is staying consistent once the initial novelty wears off.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Run wp jetonomy flush-rules (or visit Settings > Permalinks and save) after changing the base slug. The 404s are stale rewrite rules — regenerating them fixes it immediately.

Great point. I had not considered the angle you raised in the second paragraph — it reframes the whole thing for me.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Appreciate the clear steps. The dry-run tip in particular saved me from a mistake I would not have caught otherwise.

Tried this on a staging copy first and it behaved exactly as described. Confident enough to roll it to production now.

Strong agree. Good defaults beat a wall of toggles every single time.

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