Categories show 404 pages

Do you use a custom permalink structure?

If the categories are looking for something like:

https://myblog.com/category/mycategory

and your blog is set up to use the default permalink structure, I don’t believe that will work.

Try setting it to the “Month and name” setting and see if you still have the problem. If not, then you have to decide if its worth switching your permalink structure.

Categories should always be accessible by https://myblog.com/?cat=1

If that works, but the links in your sidebar don’t, then its probably a theme issue. Try turning on the default theme and trying it again.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
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Thanks Miloandrew this solved the problem, I changed the permalink structure to %postname% , i am wondering if I can keep it this way but in the same time keep the categories working.

Thanks

I managed to resolve the issue, just deleted the category structure from %postname% to nothing.

Now even thought the permalinks in the manage posts section is set to the actual url of the post when accessing the posts it does a 404 error.

Any suggesitons ?

You mean, now categories are working, but posts are not?

That is strange.

Looking at my blog, in my “Common Settings” I have the following in Custom Structure:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html

You don’t need the .html, but I had migrated from blogger, so I threw it in there.

Under the optional settings for categories and tags, I have nothing – both fields are blank.

I can access my posts from the url:

https://myblog.com/2008/8/mypost.html

and, I can access a category this way:

https://myblog.com/category/mycategory

Give that a try and see if it helps!

Best of luck,
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