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K. M.
(@blarney27)
Looks worse to me…click the link; says it’s a “fatal error”
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
I’m going to deactivate it now; I copied and saved the result; if you want me to post what it said on the page just let me know.
Blog/page/2 still worked after activation but my other categories did not.
Huh, this is so weird. Ok, I suppose this may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and switch to the default Twenty Nineteen theme. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of the problem.
If you can install plugins, install Health Check. On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to disable all plugins and change the theme for you, while you’re still logged in, without affecting normal visitors to your site.
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
Ok; I’ll give this a try over the weekend when I have a bit more time. Thanks again for your help!
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
I had another question in reference to your previous post:
(about the koloans.com/blog page) “It’s not a category, it’s what you set as your blog page via Settings > Reading in your Dashboard.”
The posts that are appearing on the blog page are all the posts in my categories. I’m a bit concerned about the duplicate content of that; and I can’t seem to figure out a way to get rid of koloans.com/blog. Any suggestions?
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
Had some time today and tried the health check plugin; I went to the troubleshoot mode and despite all the plugins being disabled the page still did not work.
You don’t have to be concerned about duplicate content. WordPress uses canonical meta tags and links, so Google knows what’s going on.
If you want to get rid of the blog page entirely, go to Settings > Reading and change the Posts page drop-down menu to “-Select-“.
Can you see anything in your server error logs at the specific date/time you try to access the pages?
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
To be honest I have no idea how to even look that up…clearly I’m a total novice!
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
I found this blog post; seems like this person had the same issue I did and added some code to fix the problem:
https://meigwilym.com/fixing-the-wordpress-pagination-404-error/
Ah, excellent and worth a try. 🙂
You can safely add that via the Code Snippets plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
Clearly you have more faith in my abilities than I do; is really as simple as adding this code exactly as is? I think I have that plugin; it’s deactivated though…I’ve never used it.
function mg_news_pagination_rewrite() {
add_rewrite_rule(get_option(‘category_base’).’/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$’, ‘index.php?pagename=’.get_option(‘category_base’).’&paged=$matches[1]’, ‘top’);
}
add_action(‘init’, ‘mg_news_pagination_rewrite’);
Thread Starter
K. M.
(@blarney27)
It looks like the person who put the site used snippets to fix it because when I reactivated the plugin problem was solved. Looking at the plugin there is an entry to correct the issue…too funny. Sorry to waste your time over a self inflicted problem, I was so worried about all the plugins I had running I figured I’d deactivate some of them I thought I’d never use. Really appreciate the help!
That’s awesome, I’m glad it worked! 🙂
