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  • February 28, 2014 at 7:20 am #230462
    bhaydock

    I have my pages blog section as “multi-author”, meaning you can click each Gravatar or name of each author to pull up an Author Archive page with a short description of the author and a list of their previous posts.

    This feature works for all the contributors except for one, who, when you click his name gets a “Error 404 – page not found”. He managed the site and posted a lot of content for about 2 years before I took over and changed it to the Enfold theme, so I’m wondering if that has anything to do with the problem.

    Thanks,
    Ben

    March 1, 2014 at 11:15 am #231036
    Josue

    Hey!

    Maybe there is a URL conflict between that Author page with a Page/Post, you can discard this by changing the Permalink option to the default non-pretty one.

    Regards,
    Josue

    March 2, 2014 at 10:39 am #231239
    bhaydock

    It doesn’t seem to be a URL conflict, as the Author Archive links you to a URL with “/author/[NAME]” which definitely isn’t the same URL as any post or page.

    Would it help if I linked you to my site?

    March 2, 2014 at 5:26 pm #231269
    Josue

    Hi,

    Sure, can you create an administrator account and post it here as a private reply?

    Regards,
    Josue

    March 3, 2014 at 11:10 am #231471
    bhaydock
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    March 3, 2014 at 5:58 pm #231696
    Ismael

    Hey!

    I’m not sure why it is not working but please try create a backup of the .htaccess file then delete it. Flush the permalink settings on Settings > Permalink, click the “Save” button once.

    Regards,
    Ismael

    March 4, 2014 at 9:01 am #232078
    Dude

    Hi!

    I had the same problem on my server – this article: http://www.ilmigo.com/fix-404-wordpress-author-archive-page.html helped me to fix it. Note that it’s not a theme issue but a wordpress issue and I’m sure you can reproduce it with any theme including the standard TwentyFourteen or TwentyThirteen theme.

    Regards,
    Peter

    March 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm #232276
    bhaydock

    That solved it Peter, thanks so much! I’m really impressed that you guys provide support and answers for non-theme related issues like this one!

    Cheers,
    Ben

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