Broken Categories
Man, talk about usability problems. All of WebWord’s categories are broken!
I’d prefer not doing a load of research about this. Can someone tell me how to get this fixed? As you probably already know, I’m using WordPress.
“I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!”
December 7th, 2005 at 4:56 pm
I’m not an expert, but here’s what I’ve noticed. Not all of your categories are broken. The Uncategorized and Websites categories work.
I see that the ones that don’t work all have spaces in the names. For example, the link to the Usabilty category is http://www.webword.com/category/Usability News/
Did you recently change the category names?
December 14th, 2005 at 9:28 am
I would check if the .htaccess file in your www-root is not broken.
If you are not using a very weird WordPress setup this should be the file that controls all the dynamic subfolders (permalinks, categories, archives etc.).
If you are lucky clicking the “Update Permalinks Structure >” button under “Options -> Permalinks” may be enough to rewrite the .htaccess file.
Otherwise you could manually check how it looks. In my WordPress installation the category part of it looks like this:
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/feed/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1&paged=$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)/?$ /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA,L]