Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the "Remove Category Base" option in your WooCommerce settings. It sounds like this is causing significant problems with your category URLs, especially those with child categories.
To address this, please ensure that you have enabled the Remove Category Base option correctly. You can do this by navigating to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → WooCommerce and toggling the Remove Category Base option to On. After making changes, don’t forget to click on Save Changes.
If the issue persists, it may be necessary to check if there are any conflicting plugins or settings that could be affecting this functionality. Additionally, flushing your permalinks by going to Settings → Permalinks and clicking Save Changes without making any modifications can sometimes resolve URL issues.
If you continue to experience problems, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent from our support team can assist you further. Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention!
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I actually submitted an incorrect question.
The problem I am having is that the “Remove parent slugs” option is not working unless I also have the “Remove Category Base” turned on.
“Remove parent slugs” turned on should result in parent slugs being removed from URLS regardless of if the “Remove Category Base” is turned on.
This must be a bug in the current version of your software? I see others posting the same issues.
Hello,
Yes, this issue with the “remove parent slug for categories” option that is not working has already been reported to our development team and confirmed as a bug.
Once we have an update about this, we will inform you here as well.
We really appreciate your patience in the meantime.
Looking forward to helping you.
