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WordPress How to Make a Website with WordPress Custom Post Types and Fields in WordPress Custom Post Type Templates

Posted by Mark Miskel
Mark Miskel
2,474 Points

404 error when clicking on examples from My Art page.

My page looks like what the tutorial looks like but when I click on any of the example art posts on the My Art page I get a "Page not found " error.

It seems like the single-art.php is not working.

Thanks for any help.

9 Answers

edisplay
edisplay
16,715 Points

Solution ! :0 Hi! Hope it's not too late! But, I had the same issue.

I'm using GoDaddys Web Ultimate Windows Plesk Hosting and the same TwentyThirteen-Child Theme.

After many frustrated trials & attempts and even "eating watermellone" :) Really! It's watermelon - anyways! , I was amazed when I came across the simple solution of just deactivating the Custom Post Type UI and Advanced Custom Fields plugins "at the same time" and then reactivating them "at the same time". And that's just how I did it and "it worked for me".

Good luck & Hope this helps!

Alastair Howard
Alastair Howard
1,687 Points

Great tip - it worked for me. Thanks for saving me hours of agony!

Mark Miskel
Mark Miskel
2,474 Points

Thanks for your help. I have abandoned Wordpress Development for now and moved over to the Front End Web Development Track to learn HTML and CSS. After I complete it I'll go back to Wordpress. I'll try your solution when I come back.

Thanks for reviving this thread. Your solution already helped another person!

Kayden Enright
Kayden Enright
3,494 Points

HUE HUE HUE.

Chris Raedeke
Chris Raedeke
434 Points
Chris Raedeke
Chris Raedeke
434 Points

Thanks! This got it working for me.

Laurel O'Brien
Laurel O'Brien
1,223 Points

Worked for me, does anyone know why? Now I'm going to start debugging everything by turning it off and on again haha..

David Potts
David Potts
3,864 Points

Had the exact same problem, and this solution worked perfectly for me. No idea why. Thanks for the help!

Rob Axelsen
Rob Axelsen
4,082 Points
Rob Axelsen
Rob Axelsen
4,082 Points

Worked for me too! Thanks a lot.

Elena Paraschiv
Elena Paraschiv
9,938 Points
Elena Paraschiv
Elena Paraschiv
9,938 Points

Worked for me too. Thanks Francisco! Does anyone understand why this problem appears and why it is solved in this way?

Scott Cox
Scott Cox
12,219 Points
Scott Cox
Scott Cox
12,219 Points

This didn't work for me, but changing my Settings -> Permalinks setting back to the default seemed to do the trick! If I figure out why, I'll let you know :)

Meg Cusack
Meg Cusack
11,448 Points
Meg Cusack
Meg Cusack
11,448 Points

Thanks so much, Francisco. This worked for me too!

Danny Luna
Danny Luna
5,899 Points
Danny Luna
Danny Luna
5,899 Points

Good stuff, worked like a charm!!

Zac Gordon
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Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Couple things:

  1. What happens when you remove the single-art.php template and try to view the page?
  2. What happens when you open the post from the admin area and click to view it from there?
Mark Miskel
Mark Miskel
2,474 Points

404 error on both 1 and 2.

I'm going to go through the tutorial again. Maybe I changed some code without realizing it.

Thanks for getting back to me though.

Mark Miskel
Mark Miskel
2,474 Points

I went through the tutorial again and still haven't figured out what happened.

I'm working locally with XAMPP. Here are the url's of the pages of my site.

Home: http://localhost/wordpress/ My Art: http://localhost/wordpress/my-art/ Example 1 (404 error page): http://localhost/wordpress/blog/art/example-1/

It's the "blog" part of the Example 1 url that concerns me. I don't have any pages named blog for my site. Also, the plugins used look different since the video was made. Maybe there are more options to click with the new versions?

Kayden Enright
Kayden Enright
3,494 Points
Kayden Enright
Kayden Enright
3,494 Points

try eating watermellone, it really works!

Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson
11,194 Points
Nick Johnson
Nick Johnson
11,194 Points

try eating watermellone

Dennis Martin
Dennis Martin
3,515 Points
Dennis Martin
Dennis Martin
3,515 Points

I was having the same problem (404 error) , except I'm running WP on my Mac using MAMP, so I tried Francisco Cruz's suggestion and it worked.

Ken Galvin
Ken Galvin
5,101 Points
Ken Galvin
Ken Galvin
5,101 Points

Thank you so much for the solution, i got so confused when I got the 404 error.

Ken Galvin
Ken Galvin
5,101 Points
Ken Galvin
Ken Galvin
5,101 Points

Thank you so much for the solution, i got so confused when I got the 404 error.

Michael Barrish
Michael Barrish
2,820 Points
Michael Barrish
Michael Barrish
2,820 Points

This solved it for me, but I'd like to understand why -- both why the problem occurs and why the solution works. I'd also like to know if this sort of issue is common to WP. or if it's limited to using the two plugins together.

Oda Åberg
Oda Åberg
858 Points
Oda Åberg
Oda Åberg
858 Points

Thank You!!!