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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.

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

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

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

Could you say more about how you measured the result? I want to try this but I am not sure what success would look like.

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

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

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

We ran into the same situation last quarter. What worked for us was starting small and only adding complexity when a real need showed up.