I think I just figured it out. My website was showing up as https://geneticbonds.comcategory instead of https://geneticbonds.com/category. My Catgory Base was “category” and my permalink structure was /%postname%/
So if you are here because you are having the same problem with categories showing up with the ‘404 Error’ you need to adjust the permalink structure in the Settings → Permalinks panel (Options → Permalinks before WordPress 2.5). According to Codex – Using Permalinks, “%category% – A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.” I am new to wordpress, and not sure if %category% is the same as /%category%/, but using either /%category%/%category%/%postname%/ on the permalinks or /%category%/%page%/%postname%/ seemed to correct this issue for me.
