Title: Permalink issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink issue

 *  Resolved [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/)
 * I’m experiencing a strange issue with my wordpress site where for pages of categories
   I get a 404 error. My permalinks are set up with this setting
 * /%category%/%postname%/
 * The error occurs when I look at a category page deeper than the first page. So
   for example
    site.com/category-name <–this works
 * but
 * site.com/category-name/page/2 <– this is a 404??

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 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977691)
 * try just using `/%postname%/` in custom structure .
 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977699)
 * Using just /%postname%/ and nothing else seems to break both the category homepage
   and the sub paginated pages..
 *  [govpatel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/govpatel/)
 * (@govpatel)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977703)
 * I have been using just /%postname%/ ever since I installed wordpress and I do
   not have any problems.
 * You can check here see if you can find a answer
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977712)
 * Apparently this is a known issue. There is a section in that page called ‘Paged
   Navigation Doesn’t Work’ which suggested deleting the .htaccess file which I 
   did and reset the permalink setting to recreate .htaccess but that didn’t fix
   the problem.
 * Interesting that you are able to use only /%postname%/ and view a category page
   located at /category-name and it works for you but not me…
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977717)
 * How, exactly, do you want your pretty permalinks to appear?
 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977720)
 * OK, apparently there is a plugin to fix this issue??
    [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-pagination-fix/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-pagination-fix/)
 * Surprised this issue exists and hasn’t been fixed yet.
 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977723)
 * Chip, I want my post permalinks to be /category-name/post-name/
    and that is 
   working just fine. The problem arises when I look at a category page which shows
   all the posts in that category and is paginated.
 * Page one, which should be located at /category-name, works just fine. Page two,
   which should be located at /category-name/page/2, gives a 404 error. Apparently
   it thinks I’m looking for a post named “page” in the category instead of the 
   second page of posts in the category. Hope that makes sense?
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977729)
 * What if you used:
 *     ```
       %year%\%category%\%postname%
       ```
   
 * Would that be acceptable?
 * That would, I think, make your issue go away.
 * (IIRC, the problem gets into the minutia of the way WordPress’ rewrite rules 
   work. Basically, you’re going to have problems if you start your pretty permalinks
   with a text string.)
 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977770)
 * Thanks. I just installed the plugin referenced above and that apparently fixed
   the issue…

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 * Last reply from: [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * Last activity: [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issue-25/#post-1977770)
 * Status: resolved

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