Category Base Removal and Category Pagination (Revisited)

Then ask “that” site – not here. We consider it a nonsense hack and it is not supported.

My site is not just “that” site, moshu. What for kind moderator you are if you can’t be friendly. And why is it a “nonsense hack”? If I change my permalinks on my site is that illegal? And who is “we”?

@blupixelz, send me e-mail and I will help you with your problem. You see, I can’t help you here, because of “that” friendly moderator.

fira,

Hi. I am also having the same problem. I would love to hear how you solved this. Thanks!

i had problems with this moderator in almost the same thread i started long time ago.. he acts like a crying kid most of the time.. Moshu iam sorry but we can’t post problems that suits your will..

fira and mckinley.. kindly post me a solution to this one as well..

@all: Exactly the same problem i was fiddling with to no good. Please let us know, whatever the one or other ‘admin’ considers to be interesting or nonsensical.

@moshu: Please moshu, reconsider your tendency to censor others thoughts.

hope somebody will post a solution soon enough !

Any news?

no there is no news.. everybody sleeping..

Halloa!
Fira, please , could you send a hack or tell where it can be found!!
Need it a lot. Don’t want to loose goodPR pages ??
My mail dimo[dot]spb[dot]ru[AT]gmail[dot]com
Thanks in advance!!!!

hey!

a found a solution…

as seen at https://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1022546

go to wp-includes/classes.php
find
if ( isset($error) )
$this->query_vars[‘error’] = $error;

under it you need to place the following

if (@$this->query_vars[“name”] == “page”)
{
$tmp_ar = $this->query_vars;
$this->query_vars = array();
$this->query_vars[“paged”] = str_replace(“/”, “”, $tmp_ar[“page”]);
$this->query_vars[“category_name”] = $tmp_ar[“category_name”];
}

Thats it.

works for me ??

Thank you, kind sir!!!!!
It works well ??

Yes, thank you much.

Im assuming when upgrading WP this will be overwriten, so CHMOD file or keep backup.

Cheers…

Works for me too, thanks very much.

The pagination fails because of a rewrite rule that, in this permalink configuration, is broken. Here’s the rule:

(.+?)/([^/]+)(/[0-9]+)?/?$ == index.php?category_name=$1&name=$2&page=$3

I’d love to know what WP function uses those three queryvars; haven’t had much luck grepping for them. Looks like it’s supposed to handle /cat/post/pagenum for posts spanning multiple pages. I don’t have any of those, so I don’t need that rule.

And here’s the one we want, which appears at the bottom of the list of rules, despite being more specific:

(.+?)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ == index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2

The proper way to handle this problem, if it doesn’t break other parts of WP, would be to reorder the rewrite rules so that the first rule is below the second. But sdemidko’s code solves my problem now, so I’ll leave the research for later.

I’ve dropped this into a plugin so I don’t have to worry about WP upgrades:

<?php
/**
 * workaround_broken_wp_rewrite_rule.php
 *
 * Plugin Name: Workaround Broken WP Rewrite Rule
 * Description: Fixes pagination for /cat-slug/page/2 style URLs
 * Author: _timk
 */
function workaround_broken_wp_rewrite_rule($query_vars)
{
  if (@$query_vars["name"] == "page") {
    $qv = array();
    $qv["paged"] = str_replace("/", "", $query_vars["page"]);
    $qv["category_name"] = $query_vars["category_name"];

    return $qv;
  }

  return $query_vars;
}

add_filter('request', 'workaround_broken_wp_rewrite_rule');

?>

Update: Although this worked for me in the past, it does not anymore.

I have all my category’s as child’s of a parent “news” category. So when using this “fix” I get 404 on all category links.

I believe this is the reason why, and not that I am using WP 2.7 now. Not 100%

Either way, I really need help to find a work around. If you use paypal, ill throw in a donation.

Thanks for your help…