Post category slug overlapping pages

  • Resolved Josh

    (@mcfarljw)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I’m not sure what changed, but when my post category slug and a page slug are the same the pages won’t load. It will instead go to my category template.

    I tried changing the category base to something with no luck. What can I do to fix this problem and separate the two without renaming them?

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  • You need to avoid replicating page & category names. Or switch back to the default permalink structure.

    Thread Starter Josh

    (@mcfarljw)

    Hmm, yes going back to the default permalink structure does fix this. The category base by default should go to index.php/category/{category_name}/ which shouldn’t overlap with a base structure using index.php/{post_name}. Correct?

    In theory, yes but permalink redirection is going to be based on slugs and, in this case {category_name} and {post_name} are the same. Hence the confusion.

    Thread Starter Josh

    (@mcfarljw)

    I finally tracked the problem down. The Yoast SEO plugin was suppressing the category base slug which was in turn conflicting with the pages that had duplicate slugs.

    I just clicked to disable that feature and now all is back in order. Not sure if it’s on by default, but something I’ve surely taken note of.

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