Yet Another Permalink Problem

  • Resolved jerryg

    (@jerryg)


    19 years, 10 months ago

    Ok.. I searched the archives, I tried any thing that even remotely approximated my problem and permalinks is still partially broken on my site.

    A mostly default installation of WordPress 2.02. Converted over from MovableType and working correctly with default structure.

    Change to ‘Date and Name based’ permalinks and let WP write the .htaccess file. Don’t touch Optional Category base.

    Post, Comment and monthly Archive links now work as expected (i.e. rewrites work correctly), but all Category links return ‘Error 404 (Page not found)’.

    What am I missing?

    Blog URL – http://www.gaiser.org/knitblog/

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    There is something wrong with your categories’ slug. E.g. if the categories were created in WP then it should be:
    yoursite/category/other-stuff instead of
    yoursite/category/Other Stuff what you have now.

    Thread Starter jerryg

    (@jerryg)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    Categories slug..?? I’m kinda’ new to WP, so I don’t understand that phrase, but..

    Ok.. digging deeper into WP, I find that in the Categories tab of admin pages there is an edit button for each category and each one contains a ‘Category Slug’. Each category slug *exactly* matches the category name – capitalized and spaced. Apparently the script I used to convert from MovableType to WP just copied the categories as they existed into both name and slug and WP can’t handle slugs in that format. Changing the slugs to lowercase and removing spaces seems to have fixed the problem.

    Thank you sir….

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    19 years, 10 months ago

    You are very welcome.
    And welcome to WP, too. I’m glad it works now.

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