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April 25, 2009

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

Download

Category pagination fix 1.o

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  1. Erik van de Ven says:
    December 7, 2011 at 7:12 am

    Fix for the custom types:

    Add this to functions.php

    add_rewrite_rule("[posttype]" . '$',
 "index.php?pagename=[posttype]",
 "top"); add_rewrite_rule("[posttype]" .
 '/page/([0-9])*/?', "index.php?pagename=[posttype]" . 
'&paged=$matches[1]', "top"); 
global $wp_rewrite; 
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();

    Change [posttype] to the name of your posttype.

    Reply
  2. Staffan Estberg says:
    October 24, 2011 at 3:47 am

    Remiz,
    I tried your plugin with the latest version of WP (3.2.1.) but I can’t seem to get it to work. It gives me additional pages but when I try and click beyond page 2 I end up with a 404 page, which is kind of weird since that second page is fully working… (like this – “x.com/news/page/2″). Could this have something to do with how the function calculates the number of pages, or is is something entirely else? Would really appreciate any help with this.

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  3. brad says:
    September 29, 2011 at 2:06 am

    Unfortunately, this did not work for me on WP 3.2.1. With (and without) the plugin installed, my pagination works on my general blog page; however the pagination breaks if you are viewing individual categories. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

    Working pagination > http://www.sample.com/blog/
Broken pagination > http://www.sample.com/category/news/

Code:
$temp = $wp_query;
$wp_query= null;
$wp_query = new WP_Query();
$wp_query->query('showposts=1'.'&paged='.$paged);

while ($wp_query->have_posts()) : $wp_query->the_post();
  // do stuff
endwhile;

previous_posts_link('« Previous Entries');
next_posts_link('Next Entries »');

$wp_query = null; $wp_query = $temp;

    Cheers,
    Brad

    Reply
  4. nykel says:
    September 20, 2011 at 8:49 pm

    the problem persist, wuat a have to do?
    helpe me please.

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  5. nykel says:
    September 20, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    i have the same problem, i ever oploat end activated but the problem no fixed.

    help please

    Reply
  6. HJK says:
    September 20, 2011 at 12:29 pm

    You are great!!!!!

    Reply
  7. Kacie Jongsma says:
    August 24, 2011 at 10:56 am

    Awesome info once again! Thanks!

    Reply
  8. beninsky says:
    July 7, 2011 at 10:54 pm

    Same Problem here with WordPress 3.2 WP, “No Category Base” and “WP-PageNavi” plugins installed :(

    I’m so disapointed, I was so close to the Perfect URL Structure for SEO :P

    Can someone fix this? :( It would be greatly appreciated :)

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    • beninsky says:
      July 7, 2011 at 11:46 pm

      nvm my problem is fixed with putting /%slug%/%postname% instead of /%category%/%postname%

      or maybe I did something else but now it Works :)

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      • Jakub Jarabica says:
        August 6, 2011 at 4:56 pm

        Awesome!!! Changing permalink structure like you wrote helped! Thank you.

      • Toby G says:
        August 18, 2011 at 7:05 pm

        Having the same problem with 3.2.1.
        I tried changing to using /%slug%/%postname% which stopped the 404 & worked OK for categories, but the actual post URLs now include the actual text “%slug%” rather than the suitable replacement.

        I think have solved this one though… if you change all references of “$query_string['name']” for “$query_string['pagename']” it seems to do the trick.

  9. vtxyzzy on "Pagination of posts" | Upgrade Wordpress Now says:
    June 15, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    [...] is a category, you may be a victim of the ‘Category Pagination bug’. This plugin claims to be a fix. Related Articles:uptonpickman on "query_posts() and pagination on [...]

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  10. fajy says:
    April 18, 2011 at 5:13 pm

    Hello,

    I am using wp 3.1.1 and I set Permalink to /%postname%/.

    Since some days to click to categories get to the 404 error.
    If I click to the post itself, it works.

    I tried many suggestions around the net (including rewriting of the .htaccess) but it doesn’t work.

    I tried your plugin too and it doesn’t work…

    Do you have perhaps some other idea ?

    Thanks to help me.

    Best regards
    Fajy

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  11. Alex says:
    March 26, 2011 at 12:14 pm

    I have the Bold theme by elegant themes and this fix didn’t work for me. Secondary pages still don’t appear. Please help.

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  12. Antares says:
    February 26, 2011 at 5:59 pm

    Hi, thanks Remiz.

    It’s possible that work fine in subcategories?
    .
    Cheers

    Reply
  13. Paulie B says:
    February 24, 2011 at 10:39 pm

    I’ve recently installed the plugin on my WP 3.0.4 site. I am still getting the 404 error on page 2 or above of my custom post type archive page. I don’t have any pages named the same as my post type so I’m not sure what else could be causing the issue.

    Could you suggest any other solutions?

    Thanks.
    Paul

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    • Remiz says:
      February 25, 2011 at 8:43 am

      This plugin seems to have issue with Custom post types. I will try on it over free time. Let me know if you got it fixed. I will upload to wordpress plugin directory so that everyone can use it

      Reply
  14. PHP Freelancer India says:
    January 22, 2011 at 1:16 am

    It is not working for me.

    I need to make a pagination for category page.

    Please have a look into plugin and let me know if you can help me.

    Reply
  15. Steve says:
    December 8, 2010 at 7:03 am

    BOSS!! Thank YOU!

    Reply
  16. Mariano says:
    September 28, 2010 at 8:54 pm

    It’s doesn’t work for me, I’m using wp3.01… nothing happend

    Reply
  17. Alex says:
    August 11, 2010 at 12:43 pm

    This works great. Saved me a ton of time. Thanks so much.

    Reply
  18. Glenn @ L'Amandier says:
    July 26, 2010 at 8:43 pm

    How about pagination error in the posts. My category pagination is working fine, but I’m having problem with the post pagination. Our blog is located here – http://www.lamandier-maroc.com/blog. The next page link /blog/index.php/page/2 is returning 404. Have you had some issues regarding this before? It’s on WordPress 2.7 by the way.

    Thanks!

    Reply
  19. AJ Quick says:
    July 5, 2010 at 9:25 pm

    Unable to use search function on pages.

    Example:

    /category/page/?s=search+terms&searchbtn=Go

    If there are no results it will display the no results page.

    If there are results it will just display the page you are on as if nothing happened. Might be related to this plug-in?

    Reply
  20. Sam Neirynck says:
    June 3, 2010 at 11:24 pm

    Hello, I’m still having troubles. I”m using 2.9.2, but the issue is still there.
    I downloaded the plugin, put it in the /plugins directory, activated it, but I still get the 404 message.

    Any help please?

    Reply
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