Redirect Issue: Clicking Page Redirects to Post Instead of Page

  • I’m currently developing a website featuring software reviews and ratings for SEO. Each software has both a ‘post‘ with a comprehensive review and a ‘page‘ containing pricing tables, a short description, and features.
    Despite having different permalinks, I’m facing an issue with some software names. When I click ‘View’ on a page, it redirects to the comprehensive review (post) instead. I’ve tried clearing my plugins cache and changing the website’s permalinks, but the problem persists. What could be causing this issue?

    My permalink structure is as follows:
    Post Permalink Structure: https://www.website.com/software-comprehensive-review
    Page Permalink Structure: https://www.website.com/software-product-details

    Note: I have provided a sample page link of my website. When you click that link, it redirects to a comprehensive review (post) instead of the product details (page) which should not be the case.

    P.S. This is my first post, so please let me know if I’ve made any mistakes.

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  • Each software has both a ‘post‘ with a comprehensive review and a ‘page‘ containing pricing tables, a short description, and features.

    Note: I have provided a sample page link of my website.

    Unfortunately, your sample betrays the URL pattern you described and your depiction of the problem.

    Take a look at the XML sitemaps for your POSTs (/post-sitemap.xml) and PAGEs (/page-sitemap.xml). Append your domain name and open these URLs in the browser… and use your browser’s search function (CTR+F) to search for invideo in both sitemaps.

    In the POSTs XML sitemap, you’ll see the URL /invideo-comprehensive-review/

    But in the PAGEs XML sitemap, there’s no corresponding /invideo-comprehensive/ as you’re supposing.

    Instead, there’s a PAGE with the permalink /invideo-getting-started-guide-from-novice-to-video-ninja/

    And as the permalink /invideo-comprehensive/ does not exist at all, WordPress is simply helping out by returning the closest match, which is /invideo-comprehensive-review/, instead of returning a 404 (Not Found) error page. Hence the redirection.

    So it seems you’re not following the POST + PAGE URL pattern you described for all the products you’ve reviewed.

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