Category 404 Error in Wordpress | Help!!!

[monicapopa]

Hello Gurus hope everyone is having a fantastic day.

Right so I've been pulling my hair with this 404 error on links as such:

htttp://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth

This link appears in the category page clients and the  /removals/man-and-van-wandsworth part is the link that should take the user on the Man and Van Wandsworth page in the/ from the footer. However this link and all other links in the footer on these category pages/posts appear to be broken ONLY on this category pages, thus creating 404 errors. And those pages(i.e man and van Wandsworth) are not even categorized.

The website is www.manvanlondon.co.uk .

We tried various things on Wordpress and nothing is working including non-indexing. Has anyone met this problem before? Is there a way to fix it?

Thank you for your time, and hope my explanations make sens.

Monica

[DonnaDuncan]

You maybe haven't gotten any responses yet because the page you reference - http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth - comes up as a blank page with the words "write error" in the upper left-hand corner. It's hard to diagnose without being able to see.

I get the same error if I try to view http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/. Are those legitimate pages? I can't navigate to it via your site structure. I can get to http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/removals/ but not http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/**clients**/removals/.

[monicapopa]

Thank you for replying Donna,

It was hard for me to explain, so thank you for taking the time to reply.

The category extension is part of the blog posts, so theoretically they are not pages but posts. However the links in the footer on those category posts/pages so http://manvanlondon.co.uk/category/clients/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth they should be http://manvanlondon.co.uk/removals/man-and-van-wandsworth however for some reason it automatically adds /category/clients/ or /category/latest-news in the URL thus creating these 404 errors on those links in the footer.

Does this make more sens?

I do apologize  for my poor explanations.

Many thanks again.

[DonnaDuncan]

It might make sense to ask for an objective 2nd pair of eyes on your Wordpress configuration. It's sounding like it might be a setup problem. Do you have someone you can ask to do that?

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Monica

Basically you need to edit/update your links in the footer for blog categories. Depending on your setup there'd be a few ways to do this. Some guesses:

• I would try checking your widgets. Often, themes will allow the setting of footer links in the widgets. Just update the links to point to the correct pages. You may want to be sure you don't have unique widgets for category pages.
• Menu - go to Appearance -> Menus - and perhaps you have a footer menu. Check the links there and see if you can update them.
• Finally, it's possible the links are coded into the categories.php page template. You can find this by going to Appearance -> Editor and looking for the file. Unless you are comfortable with a little bit of code, you may need someone to help you with this option.

So that's it - you just need to know where to update your footer links. It might be something you would want to ask a dev or someone experienced with wordpress to help you with.

[monicapopa]

Thank you so much Dan, this is the answer I was looking for.