Product links return 404 after WordPress updates
Product and category links return 404 after a WordPress update or intermittently, and re-saving permalinks fixes them.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 24 October 2023 · last reported 15 January 2026
What's going wrong
Several store owners report that product and category links stop working at random, or after a WordPress core update.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.