WordPress /page/2 404 pagination issue

Today in this tutorial, I will solve the WordPress /page/2 404 pagination issue. /page/2 404 pagination issue is a permalink issue. So In this tutorial, I will give you an example of how to solve the WordPress /page/2 404 pagination issue.

WordPress /page/2 404 pagination issue

Example: 1 When you use the posts_per_page = 6 and WordPress default posts_per_page = 10 , So in this case, we put posts_per_page = 6 on Settings/Reading.

Example: 2 Replace parameter ‘page’ with ‘paged’.

#functions.php

function remove_page_from_url_string($arg)
{ 
    if ($arg['name'] == 'page' && isset($arg['page'])) {
        unset($arg['name']);
        $arg['paged'] = $arg['page'];
    }      
    return $arg;
}
add_filter('request', 'remove_page_from_url_string');

Example: 3 Rewrite Rule

#functions.php

function category_pagination_rewrite() {
    add_rewrite_rule('bike/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$', 'index.php?category_name=bike&paged=$matches[1]', 'top');
}

add_action('init', 'category_pagination_rewrite');

Replace bike with your category name in the code above.

After adding this code, make sure you go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save.