Community pages return a 404 after changing the base slug

MA Marco Silva 3 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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SO Sofia Romano

This deserves more votes. It is a small change with an outsized impact on day-to-day use.

DA David Kim

I respectfully disagree on one detail. In my setup the opposite held true, though I suspect it comes down to community size.

OM Omar Haddad

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

PR Priya Nair Accepted

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.

FI Finn O'Brien

This is the answer I wish I had found six months ago. Would have saved me a weekend of trial and error.

HA Hana Park

One caveat for larger communities: keep an eye on the indexes. At a few thousand rows the difference is night and day.

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