Community pages return a 404 after changing the base slug

Marco Silva 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?

#moderation #roadmap
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Yuki Tanaka Yuki Tanaka

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.

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

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

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano

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

Marco Silva Marco Silva OP

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

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

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

Omar Haddad Omar Haddad

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano

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

Jamal Reed Jamal Reed

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

Lena Fischer Lena Fischer

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

Noah Bennett Noah Bennett

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

Noah Bennett Noah Bennett 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.

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Grace Adeyemi Grace Adeyemi

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

Finn O'Brien Finn O'Brien

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

Alice Chen Alice Chen

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

Noah Bennett Noah Bennett

Thanks for writing this up. Bookmarking it — the kind of thing I will want to reference again in a month.

Lena Fischer Lena Fischer

Adding a small note: the same idea applies on mobile, just with a bit more attention to tap targets.

Marco Silva Marco Silva OP

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

Priya Nair Priya Nair

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.

Aisha Khan Aisha Khan

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

Sofia Romano Sofia Romano

Following this thread closely. We are about to face the exact same decision and the replies here are gold.

David Kim David Kim

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.