Stop Wordpress Returning 404 When Accessing Empty Categories

August 1st, 2007

Filed under: Wordpress

If you’re using Wordpress 2.2.1 — like I am — you might have run into a little problem navigating to a category page that has no associated posts. This was resolved a couple years ago with ticket #1969, but those changes don’t appear to be in my 2.2.1 installation.

It’s a very easy fix: open up wp-includes/classes.php and look for the handle_404 function. Add !is_category() to the main expression and viola! no more 404s for empty categories…

2 Responses to “ Stop Wordpress Returning 404 When Accessing Empty Categories ”

  1. Ryan
    November 12th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

    This doesn’t work on 2.3.1… email me if you figure out how o do this eh?

    Regards,
    Ryan

  2. Ryan
    November 12th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    Actually I figured it out… thank you anyway :)

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