I have a custom query in category-slug.php, which works fine unless the category doesn’t have that number of pages itself.
If the category only has 5 pages of posts, but the query I put in has 7, it’ll show 404 for pages 6 and 7.
Pretty sure the reason for this is that category-slug.php checks to see if there is a page for that category before it gets to the query I have in the file.
Is there a way for me to force it to run the page instead of showing a 404?
I’ve not tested this, but adding an action after
parse_queryorwpwhich checks if the current requestis_category(), and then setting the is_404 property of the global$wp_queryto false might set you off in the right direction.