WordPress Permalink Structure & Category Base

[marcdefiant]

Hey guys, I’m currently having an issue with WordPress 4.1.1 on localhost. I’m building a theme for a jewelry maker which will have according categories such as ear-rings, necklaces, bracelets etc.

The problem is that:
localhost/ear-ring/bright-aluminum-aura-weave-earrings

loads just fine as it should, but the permalink for the post is:
localhost/bright-aluminum-aura-weave-earrings

which returns a 404.

I took a few screenshots to help explain.

1. my current permalink settings
2. the post title and permalink
3. url + src of the url which I want (although the canonical link refers to old structure)
4. 404 on supposed permalink which matches the permalink in the 2nd image

http://dyllon.me/wordpress.png

Any help would be appreciated.

[Jonathon Harrelson]

You might want to try putting a “.” minus the quotes for the category base see if that works.

[marcdefiant]

Actually, after reviewing general functionality of the rest of the site, I realized that I needed to set the custom structure option to /%category%/%postname%

I had mistakenly added this setting to the category base instead.

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