Woocommerce creates more category/product pages: I can’t access or delete

You’ll probably need to give a bit more information.

What do you mean by ‘via a different platform’?

Hi @tim983

If I understood correctly, you are having the provision of accessing/updating your website form another platform than WordPress/WooCommerce itself?

It is not a good idea from the angle of security and I’d advise you to revoke such access!

Could you please share a copy of your site’s System Status? You can find it via WooCommerce > Status. Select “Get system report” and then “Copy for support”. Once you’ve done that, paste it here in your response.

@margaretwporg Thanks for your reaction and I am sorry for not reaction anymore. I found myself immerged in IT problems all of a sudden.
This other platform is an IT (learning) company. I am following an SEO challenge with them and can now see of sorts of things.

I hadn’t responded yet because I am not really sure if woocommerce is adding automatically (instead of deleting). What I see at this platform are things like this:
https://Www.timhupkes.com/cute-cars/Delahaye
https://Www.timhupkes.com/cute-cars/Delahaye1
https://Www.timhupkes.com/cute-cars/Delahaye2

Instead of an url being overwritten. The platform is very new to me, so I have more questions than answers. But it would be lovely if this topic could still be open, until I understand/solve it all.

Thanks!

Hi @tim983!

The links you provided are not currently working. Can you please send them again?

Have you tried to check your products categories? Go to Dashboard > Products > Categories

Also, as Margaret suggested, could you please share a copy of your site’s System Status? You can find it via WooCommerce > Status. Select “Get system report” and then “Copy for support”. Once you’ve done that, paste it here in your response.

@csnlima thanks! Those links are examples, I will get a few ‘real ones’ as soon as I find them back (have been looking but I am not very familiar with their platform)

This is the status report:

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Site address (URL): https://www.timhupkes.com
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Oldest: 2021-12-24 13:43:05 +0000
Newest: 2022-01-23 14:17:31 +0000

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### Status report information ###

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@tim983

Thanks for sharing the system status.

If you make this same type of URL changes directly on your WordPress site, does the same issue happen?

If no, It’s highly possible the other platform integrates with WooCommerce via APIs.
If so, can you reach out to their support team to help investigate what the issue could be?

@oaoyadeyi thanks. I am beginning to doubt Woocommerce is doing this! At this point in the platform I see no dubble/triple url’s. Even if I did I would redirect them (which is not an end solution, but probably will work SE0 wise)

For now I am going to mark this topic as resolved, because I feel I have more questions than can be answered and I feel it is handy to get my brain ducks in a row first.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks for letting us know.

Feel free to create a new thread for any other questions.