December 23, 2014
Chris
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Quick fix for 404 error in WordPress category / tag page

Just a quick fix for a common problem: Sometimes, especially after switching themes, wordpress will generate 404 errors on the category and tag pages. There might be multiple reasons – and also multiple solutions – to this, but I’m usually very successful with this:

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Go to your WordPress backend, click Settings, click Permalinks. Make sure the category base is “category” and the tag base is “tag” (unless you have some VERY weird special settings) and simply press the “save changes” button. Even if nothing has changed, clicking the button will probably make your category and tag pages work again now.

Don’t forget to clear your WordPress cache for testing.

 

This article was written quite a while ago (8 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

15 Comments

  • Amar Kumar
    July 27, 2022 2:46 pm

    Awesome man.. Worked perfectly

    Reply
  • Kumar
    March 12, 2022 3:32 pm

    I get 404 Error whenever click
    Listing Category on home page.Tried all given trick 1.Permalink 2.Deactivated a few Plugins
    But still 404 crops.Very frustrating

    Reply
  • Natasja
    January 18, 2022 3:12 pm

    Awesome, this worked! Thanks a lot

    Reply
  • Rigel
    June 23, 2020 12:50 pm

    This fixed my problem!

    Reply
  • Tracey
    May 1, 2020 3:39 am

    This worked for me in 2020!

    Reply
  • okegima
    May 11, 2018 4:41 pm

    am still having 404 error on /category/ page.

    Reply
  • Parul Bansal
    September 18, 2017 7:37 pm

    its not working for me also

    Reply
  • Lucia Mark
    September 11, 2017 4:01 am

    It’s working On my blog. Thank’s @Chris :)

    Reply
  • Ginson
    August 13, 2017 8:58 am

    Not work for me, I’m so sad

    Reply
    • Stig
      February 25, 2022 7:56 am

      I have tried but not working for me any solution

      Reply
  • Bianca Caruana
    August 4, 2017 1:51 am

    Thanks so much! This worked for me too :)

    Reply
  • Art
    June 29, 2017 9:13 am

    Thanks man! Still works in 2017 : ) It was merely a caching issue, but your solution works. Don’t forget to clear the cache people.

    Reply
  • ONLLY NIPU
    December 4, 2015 10:11 am

    Thnx dude you are awesome Love you boss

    Reply
  • Vikas R. Srivastava
    October 18, 2015 7:39 pm

    Wow..it was really quick. It saved my time to fix the issue. Thanks

    Reply

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