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Basically I want my website most pages under posts separated into categories for the URL structure. However I don’t want the default category listing page for some of the category pages rather a custom laid out page. However for some of the categories which are updated more often I want the theme category post listing page. However it doesn’t appear that wordpress likes the two mixed unless I am missing something

Thank you so much Kailey! That works by putting that at the bottom like below and leaving the permalink settings the way i had in the original post.

// Change Author URL slug to contributor
add_action('init', 'cng_author_base');
function cng_author_base() {

    global $wp_rewrite;
    $author_slug = 'contributor'; // change slug name
    $wp_rewrite->author_base = $author_slug;
	$wp_rewrite->front = '';
}

Doesn’t work

Ohh how stupid I feel, I’ve searched and searched for this and came up with nothing, it felt very strange and right after I posted this it jumped out at me like a stream of light through the clouds. “Set a Parent page under Page Attributes” …. D’oh!!! Perhaps this helps someone someday somewhere, in the meantime lets all just have a good laugh about this.