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1. craigcreid
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Having trouble getting my site to display older entries.

   I have category pages set up to only show 5 entries at a time. If I have over this amount in the category, the button appears on the page for 'older entries'. However this throws up a 404 error instead of showing the page of older entries.

   I think it is permalink related but have no idea how to solve it.

   If my permalink is:
   /%category%/%postname%/
   I get the error.

   Bizarrely through a typo I found that
   /%category&/%postname%/ (note the & symbol instead of %)
   Does show up the list of older entries without the 404, however trying to view and individual post throws up a 404 instead.

   Any ideas how I can fix this? Help would be most appreciated.

2. esmi
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Site url?

3. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Hi,

   Add this code in htaccess and have a check with old and new posts:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

4. craigcreid
   Member
   Posted 3 weeks ago #

   Tried that Shane and it had no effect.

   I have discovered however that changing pemalinks to:

   /%category%/%year%/%pagename%/

   Works fine. For some inexplicable reason, it refuses to work when category and pagename are next to each other. I guess I can live with having the year in there between them.

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