Bug in category name variable and slug

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

Could you please share a link to one of the affected categories via the sensitive data section so that we can check this further?

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hi,

Thank you for helping in reproducing the error. As it was an edge case, we did not test it.

It should be fixed in one of the upcoming updates.

For now, please add the following code in your theme’s functions.php file to fix the issue:

add_filter( 'term_link', function( $link, $term, $taxonomy ) {
	if ( 'product_cat' !== $taxonomy ) {
		return $link;
	}
	$permalink_structure  = wc_get_permalink_structure();
	$category_base        = trailingslashit( $permalink_structure['category_rewrite_slug'] );
	$link                 = str_replace( $category_base, '', $link );
	return $link;
}, 0, 3 );

Hope that helps. Thank you.

Hi Jorge,

The First issue, please use %term% instead of %category%

The %category% variable is to be only used on single posts – not the category archive itself.

For the second issue, we have logged it as a bug and it only happens in the backend preview – the actual URLs should work fine. We are working on a fix and we will release an update soon.

Thank you.

Hi Jorge,

The description we used is correct. It is just supposed to be used on single posts to show the category assigned to them in the title or meta description.

%category% on Single post
%term% on category archives.

That’s how it works.

We are glad it is all good and working with the term variable.

Thank you.