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Moshu said:

“Removing the category base would result that WP cannot make a difference between a Page
example.com/page-slug
and a category archive
example.com/category-slug
THAT’s why it is there. Usually all the “smart” workarounds to remove it end up in broken blogs.
You were warned…”

That’s a copout. Any good entity-driven database would prevent duplicate entities from being created (and the “resolved” WP slug scheme resembles an entity-driven database, even if it’s not entirely so under the covers). It is something that *should* be fixed. Page and post and any other slugs should not be allowed to be duplicated.

Hi TrishaM. Yes to all of your questions. I ended up “fixing” it by saving my posts to an XML file, deleting the database, and running the install function. Once I imported the saved XML post file, all my problems went away. I’m chalking it up to some plugin I installed messed up the database. Perhaps it was a plugin I installed and removed prior to upgrading, which would explain why I could not track it down otherwise. But, thanks for your time and effort.

Well, that didn’t seem to change anything. I reinstalled WordPress manually, and nothing seems to have changed. I figure at this point that there has to be something wrong in the database, but I can’t put a finger on it.

Anyone got any other suggestions? Should I create an XML save of all (120+) posts, delete the current database, and start over? Seems like a major “work around” to me.

Thanks. I will try it manually and see what happens

Uh, never mind. Apparently it’s nothing more than changing ‘cats’ to ‘categories’. Duuuuh.

Sorry. Didn’t realize someone replied

https://www.dog-gonnit.com

Anyone have a reply for me?

By “inside” do you mean between the #Begin WordPress and #End WordPress comments? Because if so, then yes they are. Here os the “original” WordPress file

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

Where should my changes be?

THanks