Category pagination fix – WordPress plugin
Update (07 December 2011) : An update has been made to the plugin and is available for download from WordPress plugins directory. This will fix pagination on custom post types as well.
Plugin name : Category pagination fix
Release date : 2009-04-25
Description
Fixes the bug in WordPress 2.7 ( may be in lower version also) in category listing page pagination. When you are using permalink structure as %category%/%postname% , second page URL of category listing page will be category-name/page/2 which WordPress identify “page” as post name. And will return 404 error page. This plug-in will fix the issue. This also fix the next and previous buttons bug in while using custom permalink structure.
I’m using this plug-in for this blog itself 
Installation
1 . Unzip into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2 . Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
Known issues
No issues reported yet. Please report issues in comments
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I installed the plugin too, but still getting 404 nothing found in category pagination…. at http://www.nucleusmarket.com/WORLDMARKET/home-garden/animal-care/page/2/, please look me!
I installed the plugin, but still getting 404 nothing found in category pagination…. at http://dev.wrctechnologies.com/talent/category/performers/page/2/
what if I make a costum page template, and take up the post of the category? This plugin does not work . check http://grahapencerahjiwa.com/cd-pencerahan/
pluggin is not showing anywhere in admin panel plz help
You just need to enable the plugin from the plugins page. No configuration needed
also installed the plugin and it didn’t help.
wordpress 3.3.2
multi-language WPML 2.0.4
custom permalink: /archives/%post_id%
pagination test:
http://www.ncsforum.org.il/archives/category/%D7%9E%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A7%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%AA
please let me know what can be done.
thanks in advance!
Did. The. Job. Many Thanks.
WOW!!! this work really!!!! I spent upto 20+ hours on fixing the issue, but when I install this plugin now everything is working perfect!!!!!!!
THANKS!!!!!!!!!
AMAZING!!!! I have been struggling with this problem for a month now, even the maker of the template I was using couldn’t help me. I tried just about every solution I could find to no avail.
Your code fixed it.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
Please take a look at my thoughts about this topic here:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/explanation-and-workaround-for-error-404-on-category-pagination?replies=10
It seems, for now, the only 100% working method out there.
Unfortunately, did not help. Have tried everything possible, but nothing works. I have a structure as /% post_id% / and WordPress 3.3.1.
I used a different code, but nothing helped. For example, the code is:
And will return 404 error page:
http://www…..com/category/films/page/2/
Please help.
Hi, I have the same issue but whit tags. Works perfect with categories but not with tags.
¿Any suggestion please?