blaisefreeman

My directions were very poor. Let me try again:

1) Under Options >> Permalinks, Set your Category Base to /category

2) Use the following hack (modified from bloggerholic), that removes the base category from links (unless it’s a multi-page link). Find the function “get_category_link($category_id)” in category-template.php (in the wp-includes folder) and insert the following hack, like so…

function get_category_link($category_id) {
	global $wp_rewrite;
	$catlink = $wp_rewrite->get_category_permastruct();
	///////// ADD FOLLOWING LINE ///////
	if (!(isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged']))) $catlink = str_replace('/category', '', $catlink);
	///////////////////////////////////

3) Next, you have to fix the multi-page problem that results from the above hack. For some reason, multi-page permalinks require a Category Base. So we have to add the category base back in for the function that produces the link to page 2, next_posts(). Make the following change to the link_template.php (in the wp-includes folder):

function next_posts($max_page = 0) {
	//////// ADD THE FOLLOWING LINES ////////
	$the_unmodified_link = clean_url(get_next_posts_page_link($max_page));
	if (preg_match('/category/', $the_unmodified_link)) echo $the_unmodified_link;
	else echo preg_replace('/yourdomain\.com/' ,'yourdomain.com/category', $the_unmodified_link);
	/////// COMMENT OUT ORIGINAL CODE ////
	// echo clean_url(get_next_posts_page_link($max_page));
        /////////////////////////////////////
}

Notes:

1) replace yourdomain.com, with your domain, but do not prefice with www, and also escape non-alphanumeric characters (such as . and /)
2) You can see an example of this hack working on my site, but it has two excpetions: wordpress is installed in a subdirectory, and the Category Base was changed to archive/, so the exact code I used is a little different, so the resulting links are harvardmagazine.com/web/breaking-news for page 1 and harvardmagazine.com/web/archive/breaking-news/page/2

Hope that was more clear Charbax.

I have also run into this problem. The best way to get around the second issue you’ve raised is to use <?php bloginfo('url'); ?> on all of your links.

I use custom comment.php files, so I’m not sure what variables your theme will use, but I just add

<?php
  $post_id = $post->ID;
  $comments = get_approved_comments($post_id);
?>

to the beginning of my comments.php file. You should at least check out the function I mentioned: get_approved_comments().

I think wordpress runs a query that performs that function before single.php is called, so calling this function directly does the same thing. That’s just speculation, though. Either way, it works for me.