: Permalinks only work from home page I am trying to get pretty permalinks working on my wordpress site. From the home page, every product is redirected to the pretty permalink just fine. However:

@Berumen354

To answer your questions:


It will be an issue but up to certain extent. Pretty URL are often associated with high quality websites and better for usability and UX. As long as you can reach the product pages from the homepage you won’t be having any issues in terms of indexation. If the pages are accessible they will always be indexed.
This is no an issue, search engines do not rely on the information provided in the sitemap. But here, I can see that there is definitely a problem in the way WordPress is handling the URLs.


You need to check if you are selecting the right permalink option in Settings->Permalinks and make sure you save it before leaving this section.

Then, If you Wordpress is running on an Apache server and is in the root, you need to check if the permalink rules has been written to the .htaccess file.

Here is how the Wordpress rules in the .htaccess file should look like after you saved the settings:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress


I believe this is the answer for your question in this forum related to SEO.

This answer here, however, might help you with your Wordpress permalink related issue. If not consider posting a more specific question in another forum:

When you go from your homepage do you see permalinks? Or ugly URL?

From the products pages and using the main navigation menu, can you go to other products pages?

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