{"authorId":"1","title":"A Plea for WordPress Help","slug":"a-plea-for-wordpress-help","postDate":1231204447,"expiryDate":null,"enabled":"1","fields":{"2":"<p>I love using WordPress to power websites.<\/p>\n\n<p>While it began strictly as a blogging platform, it has evolved into a pretty solid CMS, but there is one little thing that has been bugging me for a while now.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>With the launch of my redesigned site, I was interested in using the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-pagenavi\/\">WP-PageNavi plugin<\/a> because I think it provides much better paging than the default WordPress previous\/next.<\/p>\n\n<p>The problem is that WordPress includes <strong>\/category\/<\/strong> in the URL, and I hate it. For example, on my <a href=\"http:\/\/trevordavis.net\/blog\/\">blog page<\/a>, you can click the older entries link at the bottom of the content area, and you can see that the link points to here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codeblock\"><code>\nhttp:\/\/trevordavis.net\/blog\/page\/2\/&nbsp;\n\n<\/code><\/div>\n\n<p>But, you will notice that you actually get redirected to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codeblock\"><code>\nhttp:\/\/trevordavis.net\/category\/blog\/page\/2\/&nbsp;\n\n<\/code><\/div>\n\n<p>I had to do this because <a href=\"http:\/\/trevordavis.net\/blog\/page\/2\/\">\/blog\/page\/2\/<\/a> returned a 404 error. You can see this by going <a href=\"http:\/\/trevordavis.net\/blog\/page\/3\/\">directly to the third page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Some Suggested Fixes<\/h2>\n<p>I read through <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/ideas\/topic.php?id=359\">a couple<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/98005\">forum posts<\/a>  discussing the problem, but none of the fixes mentioned seemed to work.<\/p>\n<p>The most discussed suggestion was to change the category base permalink to <strong>\/.<\/strong>, but that did not work for me. Surprisingly, some people said it worked for them. That was pretty bizarre to me, so I kept looking.<\/p>\n<p>Another suggestion was to edit a core WordPress file, which I do not want to do.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Plugins to Fix the Problem?<\/h2>\n<p>I came across 3 plugins that were supposed to fix the problem, but none of them worked for me either.<\/p>\n<ul>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/top-level-cats\/\">Top Level Categories<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/decategorizer\/\">Decategorizer<\/a><\/li>\n <li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshoff.com\/wordpress\/category-base-removal-plugin.htm\">Category Base Killer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h2>My Idea<\/h2>\n<p>So I am not the greatest with regular expressions and htaccess and all that jazz, but my thinking is that I can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/redirection\/\">Redirection plugin<\/a> to use a pass-through to rewrite any link like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codeblock\"><code>\n\/blog\/page\/(*)\/&nbsp;\n\n<\/code><\/div>\n<p>To this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"codeblock\"><code>\n\/blog\/page\/$1\/&nbsp;\n\n<\/code><\/div>\n\n<p><em>Is that not possible?<\/em> I could not get it to work. Does anyone know how to get something like this to work? <strong>WordPress team, why has this been a problem for so long?<\/strong><\/p>","14":{"old_id":{}}}}