Title: Problems with sub-categories
Last modified: February 7, 2025

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# Problems with sub-categories

 *  Resolved [Gemini23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gemini23/)
 * (@gemini23)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-sub-categories/)
 * This is on a new site
 * Is this happening with others? surely domain/category/sub-category/ etc must 
   be used a lot!
   I am getting ‘page not found’ which has happened again… /%category%/%
   postname%/ as the permalink structure.And… with the url string domain/sub-category/
   displaying the sub-category content which is at/domain/category/sub-category
 * I have read that maybe WordPress ‘thinks’ that there should be a post after /
   category/
 * **Anyone any idea what is going on here?** (and how to stop it from happening
   ain)

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [1 year, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-sub-categories/#post-18293852)
 * You could have conflicting rewrite rules. WP should only think the last URL element
   is a post slug when /category/ does not occur in the URL. When /category/ does
   exist, WP is expecting an archive query for the final term. A sub-category URL
   should work even without its parent terms in the URL, although for post requests
   WP will redirect to the full URL.
 * Re-visit the permalinks settings screen. No need to change anything. Doing so
   will cause rewrite rules to be regenerated and could resolve any conflicts. If
   this does not help any, you likely have a theme or plugin that has introduced
   conflicting rules. As a test, try deactivating all plugins and switching to a
   default Twenty* theme. Re-visit permalink settings once again. Proper sub-category
   requests should now work.
 * To determine which module was the cause, restore your theme and plugins, testing
   after each. Be sure to re-visit permalinks settings after each as well. When 
   the problem recurs, the last activated module would be the cause.
 * It’s conceivable that a faulty query is the cause instead of faulty rewrite rules.
   The above test will still reveal the problem module regardless of what the problem
   is.
 *  Thread Starter [Gemini23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gemini23/)
 * (@gemini23)
 * [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-sub-categories/#post-18309529)
 * re-saving the permalinks fixed this.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Gemini23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gemini23/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-with-sub-categories/#post-18309529)
 * Status: resolved

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