{"id":4000,"date":"2025-10-11T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/reset-wordpress-permalinks-in-the-database\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:56","slug":"reset-wordpress-permalinks-in-the-database","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/reset-wordpress-permalinks-in-the-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset WordPress Permalinks in the Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you cannot access the WordPress dashboard, you can reset the site&#8217;s permalink structure from the database.<\/p>\n<p>This can help if a permalink change has caused page errors or broken links across the site.<\/p>\n<p>Before editing the database, take a backup if possible.<\/p>\n<p>To reset permalinks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the 4UHosting client area at https:\/\/clients.4uhosting.co.uk.<\/li>\n<li>Choose <strong>My Services<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the hosting service and select <strong>Manage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select <strong>Login to cPanel<\/strong> from the left side.<\/li>\n<li>Open <strong>phpMyAdmin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Select the database used by the WordPress site.<\/li>\n<li>Open the table ending in <code>_options<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Find the row named <code>permalink_structure<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Edit the row and clear the <code>option_value<\/code> field.<\/li>\n<li>Save the change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The table prefix may not always be <code>wp_<\/code>, so the options table may have a different name, such as <code>abc_options<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>After the site is accessible again, log in to WordPress and go to <strong>Settings &gt; Permalinks<\/strong>. Choose the permalink structure you want and save the settings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you cannot access the WordPress dashboard, you can reset the site&#8217;s permalink structure from the database. This can help if a permalink change&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[37],"class_list":["post-4000","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/4000\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=4000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}