Title: WP Permalinks Problem Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # WP Permalinks Problem * [xdesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdesi/) * (@xdesi) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/) * Hi, * I’ve installed WP at the root of my domain, in an attempt to use it as a CMS. * My blog will actually be located at /blog, but I installed it at the root because I want to show some recent posts on my root index.php * 1. So basically I created a category “blog” in my WordPress install, and all posts are posted here so they appear at mysite.com/blog * 2. I then changed permalink structure to: * /%category%/%postname%/ * So all posts appear at mysite.com/blog/post-name/ * 3. But there is a problem, on the blog homepage (mysite.com/blog) (which is actually category.php) I get a 404 error when clicking the “older entries” button. * However if doing this at (mysite.com/category/blog) it works. * But I just want mysite.com/blog not mysite.com/category/blog!! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301780) * Okay. * You should move your blog to /blog instead. * 1) Move WordPress to it’s own directory – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) 2) Get rid of the blog category. 3) Have a beer (or soda, whatever) * Thread Starter [xdesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdesi/) * (@xdesi) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301794) * Hi, Ipstenu, * I wanted WordPress installed at the root because then I could have WP loops on my root homepage say, and i’d have some WP pages like about-us which would not be in the /blog/ * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301825) * You do know that if you put your blog in a subfolder, you can still have it act as if it’s in root? Read the link. You’ll see. It works. You can even further customize with a static front page, so the layout of that page is totally different than the blog. * As for why you’re getting url.com/category/blog …. your category should never be the ‘main’ page for your blog. * 1) Move WordPress to it’s own directory – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) 2) Change your permalinks to `blog/%postname%` 3) Get rid of the category ‘blog’, you won’t need it. 4) Customize your front page – [http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page) * Thread Starter [xdesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdesi/) * (@xdesi) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301826) * Hm, I’ve managed to sort the problem, pagination now works for mysite.com/blog.. the fix, courtesy of themadhat.com: * 1) In wp-includes/category-template.php search for the following line of code: * `$catlink = get_option('home') . user_trailingslashit($catlink, 'category');` * Just below that, insert the following: * `$catlink = str_replace('/category', "", $catlink);` * 2) In wp-includes/classes.php search for the following block of code: * ``` if ( isset($error) ) $this->query_vars['error'] = $error; ``` * Just below that, insert the following: * ``` if (@$this->query_vars["name"] == "page") { $tmp_ar = $this->query_vars; $this->query_vars = array(); $this->query_vars["paged"] = str_replace("/", "", $tmp_ar["page"]); $this->query_vars["category_name"] = $tmp_ar["category_name"]; } ``` * Source: [themadhat.com](http://www.themadhat.com/blogging/remove-category-base-wordpress/) * Any idea why this fixes it, I don’t like editing core files, because the problem is just going to come up again when I update WP? * EDIT: I am reading through your most recent reply now! * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301829) * Yeah, editing core is always a bad idea 🙂 * IMO, it’s better to ‘start over’ and get the layout in a normal way working, and then customize the links. You should be able to do all this pretty simply. * Just don’t move your blog to the ‘blog’ folder (do ‘wordpress’ or something). * Thread Starter [xdesi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xdesi/) * (@xdesi) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301851) * My bad I moved the core files to a folder called blog first but i’ve changed it now to a folder called wordpress. Would it matter at all what this folder was called, it’s not used for anything is it, apart from the wp-admin login link? * Also I just re-named the category blog to something random, it wouldn’t let me delete it because there has to be 1 category it seems. The cat name doesn’t matter anyhow since it’s not being used right? * Right, I just have 1 problem, I’ve already got my own index.php in my themes folder which has it’s own stuff going on, to act as my homepage (mysite.com), this works. * But now how do I get my recent posts to show up at mysite.com/blog, what would the file be called (i’ve got the code i already had it in my category.php, just need to know how to show it at mysite.com/blog)? * mysite.com/blog currently shows a 404! * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-permalinks-problem/#post-1301869) * > Would it matter at all what this folder was called, it’s not used for anything > is it, apart from the wp-admin login link? * It could conflict if you have a virtual and physical folder named the same. Links might go weird. * > mysite.com/blog currently shows a 404! * This probably means you didn’t update the blog right when you moved it. * Add these two lines to the `wp-config.php` file in blog, immediately after the initial `