Title: Yet Another Permalink Problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Yet Another Permalink Problem

 *  Resolved [jerryg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerryg/)
 * (@jerryg)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yet-another-permalink-problem-2/)
 * Ok.. I searched the archives, I tried any thing that even _remotely_ approximated
   my problem and permalinks is still partially broken on my site.
 * A mostly default installation of WordPress 2.02. Converted over from MovableType
   and working correctly with default structure.
 * Change to ‘Date and Name based’ permalinks and let WP write the .htaccess file.
   Don’t touch Optional Category base.
 * Post, Comment and monthly Archive links now work as expected (i.e. rewrites work
   correctly), but all Category links return ‘Error 404 (Page not found)’.
 * What am I missing?
 * Blog URL – [http://www.gaiser.org/knitblog/](http://www.gaiser.org/knitblog/)

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yet-another-permalink-problem-2/#post-395859)
 * There is something wrong with your categories’ slug. E.g. if the categories were
   created in WP then it should be:
    `yoursite/category/other-stuff` instead of `
   yoursite/category/Other Stuff` what you have now.
 *  Thread Starter [jerryg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jerryg/)
 * (@jerryg)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yet-another-permalink-problem-2/#post-395864)
 * Categories slug..?? I’m kinda’ new to WP, so I don’t understand that phrase, 
   but..
 * Ok.. digging deeper into WP, I find that in the Categories tab of admin pages
   there is an edit button for each category and each one contains a ‘Category Slug’.
   Each category slug *exactly* matches the category name – capitalized and spaced.
   Apparently the script I used to convert from MovableType to WP just copied the
   categories as they existed into both name and slug and WP can’t handle slugs 
   in that format. Changing the slugs to lowercase and removing spaces seems to 
   have fixed the problem.
 * Thank you sir….
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yet-another-permalink-problem-2/#post-395866)
 * You are very welcome.
    And welcome to WP, too. I’m glad it works now.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/yet-another-permalink-problem-2/#post-395866)
 * Status: resolved

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