Custom Permalink: List by Category 404 error

  • Sorry I had to repost this I think place % in the title messed up my last post.

    I want to change from the Default ?p=(ID) format to
    /%post_id%/%postname%/

    when I do this everything BUT categories works fine.
    clicking to list by category gives me this URL /category/(CATEGORY NAME)
    this gives me a 404 error. If I revert back to ?p= everything is fine.

    I have an .htaccess setup so thats fine (i think)

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    This is driving me nuts because for some reason, although VERY FEW, categories work with the new permalink structure MOST do not.
    I have read all of the permalink formum responses, none seem to apply to this nor have a solution.

    can someone help me?

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  • I am having this same issue on two of my blogs. I have no idea how to fix it.

    Mod_rewrite works because my htaccess is allowing my posts and pages to read with pretty permalinks. It is just the categories that are messing up.

    When I change my theme to the classic wordpress theme I still get 404 pages or some of the links go to a single post in the category.

    When you go to a category and click view it leads to url/category/categoryname but that pulls up 404.

    If I put it on the /?p=4 whatever category default it works but I have thousands of posts that have spidered all over various search engines and it would make all those links obsolete to search

    I have tried deleting .htacess and reuploading it – it does not work

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    this problem happens to me too. is there any way to solve this problem??
    this is my web https://www.indoherbalstore.us.. just click the top menu (it is custom menu from category).. and “not found” is the result..

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