wordpress upgrade has broken my permalinks

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1. Here are some steps for you

   a) Access you site through ftp and remove .htaccess file (possibly backup it)

   b) Go to admin of your site (wordpress admin) and open permalink settings form

   c) set the first option to custom and put the value in text box

   /%category%/%postname%
   

   d) save changes and check you front-end for links

   e) if proper links visible check one to view if they aren’t returning 404

   f) if you see 404 , put this line at the top of the .htaccess

    Options +FollowSymLinks
   

   hopefully this will this the issue

   🙂

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2. If you are using Custom Post Types with the rewrite option you will want to flush your WP Rewrite rules after an upgrade. Adding this to your plugin or functions.php can help (tested with 3.4):

       // After an upgrade, flush rewrite rules
       function flush_rules_post_upgrade() {
           global $wp_rewrite;
           if( is_object($wp_rewrite) )
               $wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
       }
       add_action('update_option_db_upgraded','flush_rules_post_upgrade');
   

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3. I think your .htaccess is no more getting updated from admin.

   So try to update url re-writing code manually in .htacess.

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