Title: Post Category Prev-Next Link Fix
Author: ketanambaliya
Published: <strong>February 8, 2018</strong>
Last modified: January 10, 2025

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# Post Category Prev-Next Link Fix

 By [ketanambaliya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ketanambaliya/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/)

## Description

Fixes the bug in category listing page pagination. When you are using permalink 
structure as %category%/%postname% , second page URL of category listing page will
be category-name/page/2 which WordPress identify \\”page\\” as post name. And will
return 404 error page. This plug-in will fix the issue. This also fix the next and
previous buttons bug in while using custom permalink structure. This is also remove
category word from the url without using categorybase.

## Installation

 1. Upload `post-category-prev-next-fix` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the \\’Plugins\\’ menu in WordPress
 3. You are done

## FAQ

### Do I need to do some settings change in WordPress backend?

No, this is just a bug fixing. You have nothing to do with it

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Thank you, a great fix!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-a-great-fix-2/)󠁿

 [heldos](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heldos/) February 13, 2024

Thank you, a great fix! Resolve the pagination 404 issue

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### 󠀁[Thanks for the fix 🙂](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thanks-for-the-fix-5/)󠁿

 [wjspearson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/wjspearson/) March 15, 2023

You saved me a load of time!

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### 󠀁[Great plugin to resolve the pagination 404 issue](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-to-resolve-the-pagination-404-issue/)󠁿

 [ketanambaliya](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ketanambaliya/) May 8, 2022

Great plugin to resolve the pagination 404 issue

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Thank you, a great fix!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/thank-you-a-great-fix/)󠁿

 [seedhost](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedhost/) May 2, 2022

Fixes archive next page issues perfectly. Thank you so much. For Elementor users,
this fixes the Archive widget pagination not working, 404 issue

 [ Read all 4 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Post Category Prev-Next Link Fix” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ ketanambaliya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ketanambaliya/)

[Translate “Post Category Prev-Next Link Fix” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **1,000+**
 *  Tested up to **6.7.5**
 * Tags
 * [404](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/404/)[not found](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/not-found/)
   [prev-next](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/prev-next/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  4 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/post-category-prev-next-link-fix/reviews/#new-post)

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## Contributors

 *   [ ketanambaliya ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ketanambaliya/)

## Support

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