wordpress category rewrite rule with pagination

I was able to solve it doing these rewrites in the following order. So I specified 3 category url in the beginning then 2 category url below that and in the and single category url /combine/brand/category1/category2/page/1-9/ add_rewrite_rule( ‘^combine/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/page/([0-9]*)$/’,’index.php?category_name=$matches[1]+$matches[2]+$matches[3]&paged=$matches[4]’, ‘top’ ); /combine/brand/category1/page/1-9 add_rewrite_rule( ‘^combine/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/page/([0-9]*)$’,’index.php?category_name=$matches[1]+$matches[2]&paged=$matches[3]’, ‘top’ ); /combine/brand/category1/ add_rewrite_rule( ‘^combine/([^/]*)/?([^/]*)/([^/]*)/?’,’index.php?category_name=$matches[1]+$matches[2]+$matches[3]’, ‘top’ );

Why does WordPress keep directing or forcing my pagination?

The reason it’s rewriting ?paged=2 to /page/2 is because you’re using a page template on a page, and pages support paginated content. You can insert read more page breaks and have multiple pages of content. Because of this, WordPress has pretty permalinks for that pagination. It has nothing to do with wether your site uses … Read more