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Firstly, thank you for the detailed quick response and also taking your time to replicate the issue. It’s been busy this week so I apologize for not responding so quickly myself.

In response to (2), I believe it was intentional on our part to change the permalink “Custom” structure to be “/%category%/%postname%/”
(our category base in Permalink settings is blank). I, myself, am not the developer responsible for that decision but after reading up about it (based on my perceiving your assumption that we would not have done this on purpose) it appears this may not be ideal: https://ottopress.com/2010/category-in-permalinks-considered-harmful/

Regarding (4) I attempted to make the code modification you suggested and it appears to work great at first glance. I do not think we are using any of the “News” custom post type pages that your plugin creates in a way those page URLs are being indexed by search engines, so this solution should be fine. We are currently only surfacing them on our homepage and the only link being displayed is links to external sites configured for those custom “news” post types your plugin added.

Additionally, we have been using the above permalink /%category%/%postname%/ structure for more than a year so search engines have already indexed URLs with this structure for our ordinary “News” category posts.

I know it may be much to ask, but would it be possible for you to make the “news” category slug configurable in your plugin in a future version? I will have to do more research and probably some convincing of the business owners concerning this permalink structure is not the way to go in the future.

Did you ever figure out how to resolve this issue?

I think I am running into something similiar.