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I’m trying to make a category page for my website, but it is being extremely difficult. It wont show up as a page so I can’t edit it. And when I click on the category it tells me that it is an error 404, but then shows my the blog posts in the category right under it.
Thank you for contacting us Garrison, and thanks for using the Resolve Theme for WordPress. Our team is happy to answer any questions you have about working with Category pages on your website!
Category pages are dynamic displays that are automatically generated by the WordPress framework, and unfortunately this means that they cannot be edited in the same manner that you would use for static Pages under normal circumstances. However WordPress is an open source platform which means that there are a wide range of user generated plugins available that might provide the functionality you need to have better control over your Category pages. I was able to locate a plugin called Category Editor in the public WordPress repository which should allow you to edit Category pages just like regular ones to help you achieve your design goals.
The 404 error you are seeing on your Categories is likely related to the Permalinks configuration on your website, most likely the Category Base setting. Navigate to Settings > Permalinks in your WordPress dashboard and check the Category Base field on that page. If you see a “.” in that field remove that character and Save your new settings configuration to see if that fixes the 404 problem. Using a period character for the Category Base setting can create issues with Category pages not rendering as expected when combined with the /%category%/%postname%/ Permalink structure. Essentially what happens when that configuration is used is that the normal category base text is truncated from the URL and WordPress then attempts to serve up a static page instead of a dynamic one and then returns the 404 when it cannot locate a static page with that exact Permalink structure.
I hope that this information helps you get your Category pages working properly and please let us know if you have any other questions for us!
Thanks for posting the bit about the “.” in the Permalinks Category Base field. Deleting it solved my 404 Error problem on both my development and my official site.
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