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  1. stalik
    Member

    Hi there. I'm using the Bulgarian version of wordpress.com and my blog is http://www.stalik.wordpress.com. I experience a very annoying problem. On the picture from the link below you can see what happens when I click in one of the categories in my "Categories" widget:3

    http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/3343/error404wphw4.gif

    This awful "Error 404" appears also in some of my posts when I open them from the title, from "More", or even from the dashboard. Please give me advise - is the problem in me or in the WP script or something... :(

  2. stalik
    Member

    This happens also with other people's blogs. Some posts in Top Posts of bg.wordpress.com are leading to this:

    http://nglas.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/%d0%90%d0%bd%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%bb-%d0%91%d0%be%d0%bd%d1%87%d0%b5%d0%b2-%d0%9d%d0%b5-%d0%b5-%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%b2-%d0%b6%d0%b8%d0%b2-%d0%b5/

  3. glad1at0re
    Member

    Same problem here mate :(

  4. stalik
    Member

    Glad to hear that. :) So we don't have just problem, but BIG problem... :) Hope that something can be done about this, because I really don't want to seek alternatives.

  5. glad1at0re
    Member

    I know what you mean. Since the last dashboard update, a dozen of little problems showed up. Anyways, bumping for some help!

  6. stalik
    Member

    Almost none of my posts are readable. Most of the incoming links are not working. I believe there is no need to migrate to Blogspot, so please, give me at least some hope that everything will be allright soon (to the administration).

  7. glad1at0re
    Member

    Hey stalik.. off-topic question: if we move to blogpost, will we be able to save our posts from wordpress?

  8. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    stalik & glad1at0re: The 404 (or other similar messages, depending on the template) are a general problem. Some of us have already contacted Support and are waiting for a reply. Please refer to this thread so we can all stay in touch:
    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=28947&replies=9#post-208538
    Note that all complains I've seen so far come from bloggers who write in either Cyrillic or Greek.

  9. greekluthiers
    Member

    I had the same ERROR 404 problem with the comments in the posts. Most of the time I couldn't read them in my blog http://greekluthiers.wordpress.com (in Greek language). I found a simple solution that may help other people with the same problem. I changed the variable part of permalink (can be changed manually in edit page), by a word written with latin characters.

    Everything seems to work fine now.

  10. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    Thank you for the tip, greekluthiers. I'm sorry to report that although I changed all my permalinks the problem remains.

  11. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    glad1at0re: Re your 'off-topic' question, so far there's no official way of importing from WordPress to Blogspot (other than copy-pasting posts one by one). I've only seen a chinese hack; I don't know how reliable it is, and it will only transfer posts, not comments.
    Here's a comparison between WP & B:
    http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html
    I've been on B for two years. For my new blog I opted for WP just because I wanted a static front page, otherwise B is more versatile: you can modify templates as you wish, and you have access to the code, so you can add whatever you wish (e.g. a decent stat counter).

  12. raincoaster
    Member

    No, there are indeed other ways.
    http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/import-from-blogger-typepad-mt-lj/

  13. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    Thanks, raincoaster, but that's FROM Blogspot TO WordPress, not the other way round, isn't it?

  14. nickmomrik
    Staff

    We had a problem on some servers with permalinks using non-ASCII characters, which gave the 404 error message. We are sorry for the problems. This problem is fixed, but we need to manually fix any blogs that ran into this problem. If you are experiencing this problem for some of your posts, categories, etc. please send us a support request at http://wordpress.com/contact-support/

  15. raincoaster
    Member

    @panaghiotisadam: you're right, I misread it. But surely it must be possible to import your blog as XML?

  16. panaghiotisadam
    Member

    I'm afraid I don't know how XML works, raincoaster. Anyway that was glad1at0re's concern, not mine.

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