Title: Pagination Problem 404 error when using Custom Permalinks
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Pagination Problem 404 error when using Custom Permalinks

 *  [ilmiguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilmiguy/)
 * (@ilmiguy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-problem-when-using-custom-permalinks/)
 * After changing the permalinks, everything works fine but when i click on page
   two of the pagination, it shows me 404 error.
 * [http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz/science/](http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz/science/)
   
   This link shows the list of post and it works fine.
 * But when i click on page 2, it goes to the following link and gives 404.
    [http://www.examquizzes.com/category/science/page/2/](http://www.examquizzes.com/category/science/page/2/)
 * However, [http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz/science/page/2/](http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz/science/page/2/)
   works fine. I cannot figure out why does wordpress changes “online-quiz” into“
   category” in the link which is creating a problem.
 * Just to add, my custom permalinks are
    Custom Structure: [http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz-test/%postname%/](http://www.examquizzes.com/online-quiz-test/%postname%/)
 * Category base: online-quiz
 * Please help !

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 *  Thread Starter [ilmiguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ilmiguy/)
 * (@ilmiguy)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pagination-problem-when-using-custom-permalinks/#post-5612800)
 * I am stuck at this and cannot go forward. Please ! anyone ?

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