• I have a page called news and a category called news, but when I visit the /news/ page I am sent to the category instead of the page. Odd.

    Has anyone has had (and solved) this? If so, how? It’s happened on a couple of new installations.

    I’ve no-idea what causes it or how to fix it.

    help!

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  • Hi,

    Kindly go to
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

    Check the section “Category base and Tag base”.

    That is one way to reach the solution.

    Regards,
    PD

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    How is this supposed to help? What are you advising that I do?

    Mark

    Kindly use category as basename there.

    It should look like
    http://www.example.name/category/categoryname/

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    That hasn’t worked 🙁

    Changing the permalinks doesn’t make any difference.

    Things which I’ve tried which haven’t worked:

    – Changing the theme
    – deleting old themes
    – installing the same theme again

    No changes have been made to the wp core files.
    No changes have been made to the theme template files.

    I have set up a new wp install on a subdomain and installed the same theme and the problem is fixed.

    So I’m guessing something is b0rked on the WP install or the database?

    Ideas?

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    Things which I’ve tried which haven’t worked:

    – Changing the theme
    – deleting old themes
    – installing the same theme again

    No changes have been made to the wp core files.
    No changes have been made to the theme template files.

    I have set up a new wp install on a subdomain and installed the same theme and the problem is fixed.

    So I’m guessing something is b0rked on the WP install or the database?

    Ideas?

    Maybe try changing the name of your category? Maybe change it to ‘newspages‘ and see if it makes a difference.

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    Yes, that works. But I need to keep the category and the page name the same.

    Any other ideas?

    Could you link your website, or post the broken URL.

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    I’ll need to give you access. Can I ping you an email?

    Sure

    Thread Starter markmapstone

    (@markmapstone)

    Hi all. This still isn’t resolved. Is anyone up for a challenge?

    I’ve had this on multiple websites now, all added with 1-click installs. No theme tweaks other than css and a child theme created.

    I’d really like to know if anyone has experienced this too. I can’t be the only one!

    Mark

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