• My site is: http://intermin.org
    It is a multilingual site with English, Spanish, Simplified Mandarin and Traditional Mandarin.
    Each language has its own category.
    My problem is with the permalinks.
    If I have permalinks set for using post numbers, the posts in English and Spanish show 404 errors. If I have permalinks set for using post names, the posts in Mandarin show 404 errors.
    Is there a way to use different permalinks according to category?
    Is there some better way to handle this?

    Thanks for your help,
    Diane

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  • Diane, I suggest you fiddle around with the Permalinks. The issue is somewhere hidden there. For example, if I want to get to a mandarin language page, indeed it cannot be found, but pay attention to the URL. It’s “your-url.org/wp/”
    That /wp/ subfolder might have something to do with it. In the Permalinks try settiong them to Plain first, then check to see if it works. If not, try to set it to Post Name and add a prefix /wp/. Your custom permalink will look like this: yoursite.org/wp/%postname%

    If you want to edit permalinks for each category, you need to template the hell out of the code and it’s not worth it. You must create separate permalink identities in relation with category IDs. A whole lot of work and I’m not sure if it is possibile.

    I have a similar issue. Upon accessing the homepage it will try to direct me to a different, non-existing page.
    http://bloghubber.com is the homepage URL, but when I access it it actually takes me to http://bloghubber.com/blog that does not exist… Even creating the said “blog” page and clearing the cache did not solve the problem. It`s a ghost page that gives me a huge headache.

    Previously, the website was installed in the “wordpress” sub-dir and later moved the index.php to the root of the site and added the /wordpress/ prefix in the code where the .php page requires a path so that WP can know to look in the wordpress folder.

    Permalinks are custom: website-url/wordpress/%postname%

    I really can’t wrap my head around this.

    Thread Starter pwdiane

    (@pwdiane)

    Thank you, GrandMa90. I had not noticed the /wp/ in the url. It was a problem only with the menu links having the wrong url. Once those functioned, the permalinks with numbers worked. The post names still don’t work. I’ll have to try something else for that.

    I appreciate your response. I’m sorry for your headache. I hope you’re able to find the solution.

    Hope you can find out what’s wrong, it’s a werid behaviour you’re describing. Anyway, my problem occured once moving WordPress from its wordpress folder AFTER I added themes and plugins. Seems that if you do that all links are screwed up…

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