Issue with 404 Page Not Found in Category pages

Question

I have a website/blog setup with Wordpress.

Under Settings > Permalinks, I'm using a "Custom structure":

http://mywebsite.com/%category%/%postname%

And my .htaccess :

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

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What does work:

• Single posts
• Pages
• Categories (e.g. http://mywebsite.com/blog)

What does NOT work:

• Category sub-pages (e.g. http://mywebsite.com/blog/page/2 - when clicking the "Older Posts" link)

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What's going on? Is there any other way (aside from the... pretty permalink above, to access the subpages under some category - e.g. by category ids, etc?)

Answer 1

Wordpress searches for a post with slug page in category blog, but can not find it and return 404.

There is only one workaround - manually create rewrite rules, so it can work as you expect.

For more info see Using Permalinks and find "Paged Navigation Doesn't Work" on it.