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WordPress Top Level Categories Throw 404 Error For Sub Categories
Posted on May 19th, 2010 by admin in Domain Development, Domain News | 4 Comments »
I have been developing a new website using my now stock CMS – WordPress – and I ran into a particular problem I thought I might share in case someone else runs into something similar.
In order to make my urls more silo-like (ie. less WordPress-like with each part of the human readable url representing a proper page entity) I wanted to get rid of the “/category/” part from all my category and sub category urls.
For example, with the expired domains category here on DNXpert, by default, the url would be http://www.dnxpert.com/category/expired-domains – meaning the expired-domains part is deeper inside the url structure than I want it.
To solve this issue, and make my expired domains category url as follows: http://www.dnxpert.com/expired-domains (note it’s without the /category/ part) I used the Top Level Categories plugin from fortes.com only to find that whenever any sub categories are clicked on, a 404 page is shown.
It appears it’s an intrinsic bug with the way the WordPress core handles sub-category urls and the only way to solve this is to do a lot of coding for the Top Level Categories above or to actually use another plugin (WP No Category Base created by wordpresssupplies.com) instead.
With this new plugin the sub-category 404 issue is gone and all my urls are silo-ed!
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Does the solution require both plugins or are you only using the WP No Category Base plugin now?
@NameClerk, just the second plugin. I have edited the post to include the word “instead” which should clear things up.
Thanks.
John
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very helpful info, 10x buddy