Permalink – primary category

Hello @interactivedesign,

Thanks for reaching out about your product permalinks. I tested what you described, switching and adding categories and the permalink changed accordingly.

Can you describe your category structure and describe in more detail how to replicate the issue?

Hello @maybellyne, thank you for your response. My product permalinks is set as “/product/%product_cat%/” .

When creating a product I select accessories as the category. Then i add additional categories that i want to display this product in. I made accessories the primary category. However, as soon as i add the additional categories, the permalink changes to Bauradan or some other category – not “Accessories” that i have selected to be the primary category. It does seem that this change of permalink has a behavior to default to the first couple of categories that we created during development over my selected primary category of “Accessories”.

Thanks for the clarification, @interactivedesign.

I’m sorry the primary product category is not reflected in your product permalink. You are not the first to report this issue. That means our product team has created a bug report and is under review.

Workaround

At this time, you can try out the quick fix shared in the thread.

What’s next?
Our product team will assess the severity of this problem in relation to other open bug reports and new features. Based on their assessment, the bug report will be given a priority level. Our developers work on the highest priority issues first. Unfortunately, this means we cannot give you an estimate of when they’ll start working on your report.

If you have any further information that may affect the prioritization or help our development team solve this bug, please subscribe to the GitHub report:?https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/15393

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