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  • I’m now on my second install of WP, having totally screwed up my site after the original install (but hey, I got everything cleared out and reinstalled without losing any posts, so that’s a good thing). For the most part, everything is working as I want it to, except for the categories; if I click on a category, I assume that I should see the posts that are in that category. Instead, I get a “page cannot be found” message. Any thoughts? Thanks a bunch. By the way, I LOVE WP. Aside from this little hiccup (and my own idiocy), getting it configured has been a snap. If it helps, the Web address is http://www.baggage-and-blathering.com. Thanks!

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  • Your category links show up in the source of your page like this: http://www.baggage-and-blathering.com/archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%post_id%/blogstuff/
    That is definitely not what you want. Go to your wp-admin/options-permalink and check your configuration. After “category base” you should have a blank or something like /category and not anything with % signs. Update, check if your .htaccess is as it should be, and you should be alright.

    Thread Starter kathleen

    (@kathleen)

    One more quick question: when I had to reinstall earlier, I changed the location of the blog from http://www.baggage-and-blathering.com/journal/index.php to http://www.baggage-and-blathering.com/index.php. When I then changed my permalink configuration, I followed the instructions in the Options page to copy all of the mod_rewrite rules, but then appended those rules to my .htaccess; was I supposed to append, or should I have overwritten what was there? Thanks for the prompt response, Ben. 🙂

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    You should have overwritten any mod_rewrite rules that were there, but you don’t have to overwrite anything else.

    Thread Starter kathleen

    (@kathleen)

    Fantastic – that’ll be an easy fix, then. Thanks so much to you both.

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