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sorry that I am being dense. I’m not trying to be. If I understood this, I wouldn’t be asking questions or needing help and I do appreciate your help…

I didn’t realize that /category/ was just that word exactly. I thought it was to be replaced with the category name.

thanks for your help, it seems if I fix my nav menu’s links to put /category/ before the category name, things do work!

thank you so much.

Hmmm… didn’t fix anything. Darn.

But I noticed that my archive links ARE working (next page, etc) but the url reads:

http://schoonermaggieb.net/2006/03/page/3/

(for example)

So, does that information provide anything in terms of why? Do you think that the problem is that the chart-us posts are from multiple categories.

The thing is, the lowest post number IS chart-us… the other categories have higher ID numbers

Hmmm… I noticed in the documentation for permalinks:
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Note on using %category% with multiple categories on a post
Where you assign multiple categories to a post, only 1 can show up in the permalink. This will be the lowest numbered category (see Manage Categories). The post will still be accessible through all the categories as normal.
——————

Given that some of these posts are in two categories, could this be the issue? Would removing /%category%/ from the custom permalink structure fix it?

And what happens if I remove the /%category%/ portion of the custom permalink structure now that the posts already exist?

See*** below

moshu wrote:

My very first idea: What did you modify in the core files that WP doesn’t use the “category” for the permalinks as it is supposed to for the Category Base?

***I am not sure what you mean. I set up my “friendly” urls to use /%category%/%author%/%postname%/

Is that incorrect? Is this what you are asking me? “chart-us” IS the category

Clues. If you look at the links at the bottom of your pages you can see a missing (virtual) directory: yourdomain.com//chart-us And, if inserting “category in the address bar for yourdomain.com/category/chart-us suddenly everyhting works .

If I use copy link location from the browser (for the next page link), the link is:
http://schoonermaggieb.net/chart-us/page/2/

which is using chart-us

what I don’t get is what is /page/2/ all about? Is there a file used for this that might be missing (I have a page.php file and an archive.php file)

Sorry to be so clueless about this – it’s hard to find help in the documentation when the search functions don’t work well and this is my first WordPress site.

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate all knowledge you can send my way. If you need specific information to help, just tell me what and where and how to get it for you.

Am I doing something that is offending people or can no one here give me some idea why the code for paging isn’t working here:

http://schoonermaggieb.net/chart-us

??

I’ve tried both:


<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('« Previous Page'), __('Next Page »')); ?>


and:


<div class="navigation">
<div class="alignleft"><?php posts_nav_link('','','« Previous Entries') ?></div>
<div class="alignright"><?php posts_nav_link('','Next Entries »','') ?></div>
</div>


but in both cases, clicking produces the page with a “no matching posts” message – but there ARE more than the 5 posts shown on the page…

Ideas, please???