Title: Author permalink paging problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Author permalink paging problem

 *  [mrsugar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrsugar/)
 * (@mrsugar)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-permalink-paging-problem/)
 * Hi there,
 * We’ve been using a custom permalink structure on our site to place the Author’s
   name at the beginning or our URL. The structure is /%author%/%category%/%postname%/
   and the URL is [http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/](http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/)
 * This works great for all posts and the first page of the above URL. However, 
   if you try to go to [http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/page/2/](http://blog.imulus.com/bruce/page/2/)
   you will see that it redirects to another post on blog. Another developer and
   I have tried a lot of different paging fixes that other people on these forums
   have suggested. However, we’re still having the same problem. I’ve regenerated
   the .htaccess, still no luck.
 * Any ideas on what could be causing this?

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 *  Thread Starter [mrsugar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrsugar/)
 * (@mrsugar)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-permalink-paging-problem/#post-1040424)
 * Bump 🙂
 * Anyone have any insight on this? Thanks for your time.
 * -Bruce
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-permalink-paging-problem/#post-1040425)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure)
   
   review this
 * > # Make sure to end your structure with either %post_id% or %postname% (e.g./%
   > year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/) so that each permalink points to an individual
   > post.
   >  # **For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink
   > structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields**. The reason 
   > is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink
   > structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from
   > Page URLs (which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate,
   > WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites
   > with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start 
   > your permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID

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 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [paging](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/paging/)
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 * Last reply from: [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-permalink-paging-problem/#post-1040425)
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