[Support request] Display page instead of archive

[Lee]

I want to create topic groups for my blog posts; for eg:

– Food
– Energy
– Skills

The url for these posts would be domain.com/food/

I have created a page with the permalink ‘food’.

I also have a blog category ‘food’.

I have changed permalink structure to be domain.com/category/post

I want to display my page instead of the category archive when user types in domain.com/food/

I have tried the fix here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64414771/set-custom-pages-instead-of-category-archive-pages

And it works at replacing archive with page but the styling on the page is messed up and the page no longer pulls in posts via the [wp_show_posts id=”xxxx”] shortcode.

Is there an up-to-date solution for this?

Basically I want my urls to look pretty for users:
domain.com/food/post-name

And I want the custom page to act as the top level page for the food category.

Thank you for any assistance.

[David]

Hi there,

there is is this method:

https://docs.wpshowposts.com/article/use-static-pages-as-category-archives/

but it requires ALL category archives to be swapped out with the same named static page.

[Lee]

Thank you, David, this got me half way there!

My pages now display as intended and show posts using the wp_show_posts shortcode.

However; when I click the ‘read more’ or image to go to the actual post, it just takes me back to the same page.

For example:
my post has slug: post-name

My permalink setup is: domain.com/category/postname

The link displays correctly on hover: domain.com/category/post-name/ but when I click it, it takes me to domain.com/category/ – the same page I’m on.

It’s like the fix to display category archives as pages is now being applied to all posts too.

Thank you again,

[David]

Try: Go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes to rebuild your permalinks.

[Lee]

Thank you again, David.

Unfortunately that didn’t fix the problem.

I changed the post permalink structure to: /postname/ instead of /category/postname/ and that worked but of course in the browser bar the url for posts is now: domain.com/postname/

I then switched back to try and update permalinks to domain.com/category/postname/ and the same thing happened as before where, when trying to view the post with url domain.com/category/postname/ the page simply reloads the domain.com/category/

[David]

Can you share a link to where I can see the issue ?

[Lee]

I’ve sent it over privately.

Thanks.

[David]

hmmm… yeah, thinking about this I believe this has come up before … I assume this works if you put the permalinks back to default ie. remove /category prefix?

[Lee]

Yes, it works fine when you do that.

[David]

Yeah I don’t know a way around that, the Page doesn’t have the same structure ( because its a page ). You may find a custom permalink plugin that allows you to rewrite those URLS.

[Lee]

Thank yuo David for your help.

I will roll with it. The page to archive fix will work for now.

[David]

You’re welcome

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