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hmmmm sixth time was a charm… just a heads up in case you have similar issue…

lonewolf: you nailed it. I have since changed back off of 2.7 because wp 2.7 was giving 404 pages a 200 header message and that meant that google was unable to verify the page in google webmaster tools …. Now i’m back to 2.6 and everything is fine… I totally spaced out on considering the wp version as the source of the issue…. great catch!

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had the same issue, this helped me out.. thanks.

Thank you KREMBO!!!!

Thanks Moshu, that is good stuff! The hard sale is a dealbreaker for dpp.

Perfect, thanks! The reason this is helpful is because I use each category as a landing page with a list to other articles in that category, so each category is actually a page inserted into into the top of the category….. this means that while a top level category may be empty, it reallly isn’t because content from another page is being included in it, even though technically, there are no posts that are assigned to the category….

The goal isn’t to create more trouble then its worth, which is probably the end result here… so if the category base must stay…then stay it will…. ??

I’m removing the category base though the permalinks options page which give you the ability to change the category and tag bases at the bottom of the page…. if you use /. as your category base it removes the /category/ base or you can change the base to whatever word you choose….

I screwed this up in previous references, disregard postname in any above url references….I am referring to category and subcategory url’s and accidentally included /postname when I shouldn’t have…

Hmmm…. if I remove the category base by editing rewrite.php in wp-includes by removing category/ (as opposed to permalinks options page where you would put /. in category base to remove category base altogether) my sub categories do utilize the category.php template correctly, but the single page permalinks do not work……. so if you click on a post title to read the article and or comments….. you get a 404 …..

To clarify: I use %category%/%postname& for my default permalink structure. I was referring to removing the %category% category base slug as shown at bottom of permalink options page (the default /category/ that is present in url every time you show a category) so a default url is : https://www.site.com/category1/postname/ as opposed to the default of https://www.site.com/category/category1/postname with the /category/ base slug

hope this helps…

Sorry if I wasn’t clear, any feedback appreciated on how I can enable to have my sub-categories recognize the category.php template when I disable the /category/ category base slug… thanks!

In the same boat, surprised this isn’t in core functionality of wp….

The new write screen is the my main beef with 2.5 … moving the right column functionality to the bottom was a calculated move to help beginners at the expense of those who NEED that functionality in a common sense and easy to reach place….

this is my main complaint with 2.5 ….. this was a few steps in the wrong direction……….a plugin to fix this is BOUND to pop up soon….