WordPress expects all site slugs to be unique. You can get this to work but it is not elegant, and randomly you will have to re-visit this to make it work if a theme, plugin or a WordPress update changes anything that effects how slugs are managed on your site.
Read here to learn about the problem: http://create.blubrry.com/resources/powerpress/advanced-tools-and-options/podcast-slug/
My recommendation, not just for solving this problem, but also for SEO is to rename your category slug “podcast” to “monatsmob-podcast”.
Thanks for your reply.
I renamed our category to “monatsmob-podcast” but got an error 404 when trying to access http://monatsmob.de/monatsmob-podcast.
Besides I didn’t get an error when I first created the slug “podcast”.
Not sure if we are talking about the same problem…
We are talking about the same problem.
For lack of a better description, slugs map to records. A slug needs to be unique so they can reference the correct record. PowerPress added an option to circumvent WordPress’s logic, it’s no guarantee, but if the URL that comes in is not under /feed/ then when you pick the appropriate option in PowerPress, we let it fall through as a page or a category. If you don’t enable this option in PowerPress to allow this, WordPress will make the feed match to the slug “podcast”.
Anytime you modify the slug names where they conflict you need to go into WordPress settings > permalinks and re-save (this rebuilds a mapping of the URLs and what records they map to). After you do that, clear any caching that is happening on your server as well as in your browser, then test.
Also, the URL example.com/monatsmob-podcast may not be correct, depend son how you have categories setup in your permalinks.
To test this, go to PowerPress Settings > basic settings, and where its setup to map page/category, turn that off, then save your permalinks once, then access example.com/podcast/ should provide you a podcast RSS feed.
Thanks for your information.
Our categories slug is “kategorie”.
And our “Podcast” category is called “podcast”. Thus our category page is on http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/podcast.
Pagination on this site works fine: http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/podcast/page/2/
We don’t want http://monatsmob.de/podcast to become our RSS feed. We want to use http://monatsmob.de/podcast as our category page (because it’s shorter than http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/podcast/).
But pagination doesn’t work on this site http://monatsmob.de/podcast/page/2/
(How) Can we turn on pagination?
If you answered this question already I didn’t get it so far, sorry.
Can you give me a URL to one of your other category pages? e.g. http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/test-2/
You can make a test category call it “test 2” or “test-2”, then reply with it that be great. I will demonstrate the problem with that category URL.
I created http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/test-2/
Thanks for your help in advance!
If you go to http://monatsmob.de/test-2/, you will see by default the category does not have a landing page at that URL.
Does this make it clear that when you set the option in PowerPress, we are literally doing a 1 to 1 swap to put the category page from http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/podcast/ as http://monatsmob.de/podcast/ ?
Again note that having the same content at http://monatsmob.de/kategorie/podcast/ and http://monatsmob.de/podcast/ is harmful to your SEO and why we do not recommend it.
The option was provided because a couple users asked for it regardless of it being harmful. My advice don’t use the option as I previous described.
I understood that right from the beginning.
I can only repeat that our problem was that the pagination (clicking on “2” for the next 5 entries) didn’t work when we were using http://monatsmob.de/podcast/
I disabled this harmful SEO option now.
If other users have this pagination issue: It’s still unsolved 😉
So we are clear, using the option is intended for 1 page only, if you want navigation and such as stefahn wants, then do not use this option because you cannot have two navigable category URLs. I have seen in the past plugins that allowed this but I wouldn’t go down that road because as I explained, it would be harmful SEO wise.
