vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
I'm helping my friend get a website going but I'm having a critical issue with Pagnation returning "Not found" in category views. I've found multiple people having the same issue but they seem to be using custom code or special themes.
My issue happens regardless of what theme I am using, even if I use the default WordPress theme "twenty ten", completely unmodified by me. I have even tried deleting themes and reinstalling them just incase I did modify something by accident. Still the same issue. I also tried deactivating all of my plugins with no luck.
Any help would be greatly appreciated:
http://bit.ly/iC0cvF
kmessinger
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Do you have any categories? Where are you trying to access them from?
vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Yes, click on "Buyers" or "Blog".
kmessinger
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Sorry, I don't see any categories. On Buyers I see tags. I see no categories listed as such.
You go to dashboard, posts, categories or when you created a post you can created a category for it. Categories are for posts not pages and that is why some create custom fields.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel
vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Buyers is a category. As is Blog.
Not sure what the confusion is.
Regardless, if you go to buyers and click "older posts" you will get the error.
kmessinger
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Well, blog cannot be a category. Categories are just that, categories within the blog.
Older posts - yes, I get a 404 error which is not a category error.
Are there older posts? Older posts are not categories. Posts are not categories.
Again, http://codex.wordpress.org/Manage_Categories_SubPanel, you have no categories. Pages, like buyers, and articles (subpages) cannot be categories.
vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Well, blog actually CAN be a category. I can configure it however I like. I appreciate you wanting to help but stop telling me I don't have categories. Buyers, sellers, and blog are categories. Clicking on those links will display the POSTS in those categories.
Yes, there are older posts. Otherwise that link wouldn't be showing.
If you still don't get it or don't understand, thanks anyway but please move on. I would appreciate someone else responding to the issue?
Recently I have tried changing and resaving permalinks, as I understand that's a common problem. But no luck :(
stylishjm
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Are you using custom permalinks like this /%category%/%postname%/
vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks for responding. More or less, yes. Although my friend will likely be changing the links of each individual article to make it more visually appealing to his preference.
kmessinger
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons. - http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
Might be why the site is so slow in loading as reported at, http://www.ismyblogworking.com
kmessinger
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Under blog, the link for older posts is http://chriscopeland.ca/blog/page/2/ when it should be http://chriscopeland.ca/page/2/ as that is where the information is.
If you all ready knew this, sorry.
vicky515
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
kmessinger - that is not correct. the link you posted is just the second page of the homepage, not the blog.
Anyway, I figured it out. After several weeks of going crazy. It's because I didn't want /category/ in the URL so I had "." in the category base of the permalinks.
For whatever reason that works everywhere except pagnation. Pretty dumb. Oh well.
