Category Site not working

Same issue here. URL endings like this:

/?dlm_download_category=planning

just go to the home page.

Tried with all plugins/themes off, but still not working.
Tried refreshing Permalinks, still no.
Cleared plugin transients.

WP 5.8.3
Download Monitor 4.4.14
Genesis theme
PHP 7.3.33

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by bravenewniche.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by bravenewniche.

For those struggling with this issue, a short term fix is to make individual pages for each category, and put in a shortcode, like this:

[wpkb_code][downloads category=buildings][/wpkb_code]

Needs some styling help, but it would give you something for the moment.

Hello,

Think your problem is referring to this support post also, where my colleague already gave an answer: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/taxonomies-url-not-working-anymore/

Kind Regards!
Razvan

As an update, talked to the developers and seems that the modification will be reverted in the next update ( so this week most probably ), so the category links will work again.

Best Wishes!
Razvan

I should have noted that I currently have that filter added to our functions.php file but the category links still aren’t working.

//* Fix for Download Monitor URLs - Jan 2022
add_filter( 'dlm_download_category_args', 'dlm_add_url_to_category' );
function dlm_add_url_to_category( $settings ){
	$settings['public'] = true;
	return $settings;
}

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by bravenewniche.

Sorry about that, seems my colleague forgot to mention one setting, query_var, that also was changed and needs to be set to true. So the above code should be :

//* Fix for Download Monitor URLs - Jan 2022
add_filter( 'dlm_download_category_args', 'dlm_add_url_to_category' );
function dlm_add_url_to_category( $settings ){
	$settings['public'] = true;
        $settings['query_var'] = true;
	return $settings;
}

Again, sorry about the omitted settings.

Best Wishes!
Razvan

Thanks!

That updated code is working for me.