Title: Problem: Using Category Base in Permalinks
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem: Using Category Base in Permalinks

 *  [sublinear](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sublinear/)
 * (@sublinear)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-category-base-in-permalinks/)
 * Hi all,
 * I’d like to setup my Permalinks like this…
 * /words/%category%/%postname%/
 * …and I’d like my Category Base set to…
 * /words
 * The Permalink structure works great if I leave the Category Case blank, but once
   I put /words in the Category Base, the permalink URLs are still alright, but 
   I get 404 errors on the pages. The category URLs work fine though.
 * Note that this appears to be happening because I have the /words bit in both 
   the Category Base and Permalink Structure — If I switch the Category Base to 
   something else, /words2 say, everything works fine (no broken links), but then
   I don’t appear to have everything blog related contained within a ‘words’ directory.
 * Any ideas how I can get this to all work together?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-category-base-in-permalinks/#post-275414)
 * See the “note on using category”
    [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)

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