Title: Category Redirection and 404 Problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Category Redirection and 404 Problem

 *  [pejota.au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pejotaau/)
 * (@pejotaau)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/)
 * I’m having a problem with the categories on my site.
 * Firstly, for some reason they seem to redirect to the pages. Have a look at:
   
   [http://www.homeloanexperts.com.au/blog/category/credit-score/](http://www.homeloanexperts.com.au/blog/category/credit-score/)
 * Yes, i have custom modified the permalinks, but this was after the error started
   occurring. I was hoping it would solve it.
 * Second, some categories (that have posts) give a 404 error: [http://www.homeloanexperts.com.au/blog/category/policy-changes/](http://www.homeloanexperts.com.au/blog/category/policy-changes/)
 * A) Has anyone had a similar problem and can help?
 * B) Alternatively, do you know where I can fix categories in the Database and 
   in the WordPress files (both core and theme)?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [pejota.au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pejotaau/)
 * (@pejotaau)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165095)
 * Does no one know?
 * I’ve tried everything these past 2 days.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165096)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – resetting your custom permalinks back to the default setting. If this works,
   then review [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) before
   setting a custom permalink structure back up again.
 *  Thread Starter [pejota.au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pejotaau/)
 * (@pejotaau)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165097)
 * Yes. Now I have 🙂
 * Resetting the permalinks back to normal fixes it. I already knew that. But that
   doesn’t really solve the problem. When the URLs go back to normal the problem
   comes back.
 * It’s an issue with how wordpress sees these URLS and directs the page.
 * Even updating or using advanced permalinks hasn’t solved the issue.
 *  [NitrousCloud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nitrouscloud/)
 * (@nitrouscloud)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165098)
 * Quoting from the [codex: using permalinks:](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * > For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure
   > with the **category**, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that 
   > these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure
   > it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs(
   > which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress
   > stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with 
   > lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best for the first 
   > structure tag to be a numeric one, such as /%year%/%postname%/.
 * Perhaps the problem you are experiencing is due to starting with a non-numeric
   permalink.
 *  Thread Starter [pejota.au](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pejotaau/)
 * (@pejotaau)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165100)
 * Nope, doesn’t seem to solve it.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-redirection-and-404-problem/#post-2165137)
 * Check with your hosts that mod_rewrite is running on your server.

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