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Hi, I’ve used the ‘stripped category base’ function and the 404 monitor is now showing errors for the URLs. I have some questions about this.
1.Is this normal?
2.Will these 404 errors cause issues with Google or search in general? I ask this because I’ve tried using the non-stripped URL and I do get a 404, so if the page has been indexed, visitors will see a 404 error!
3.Do I need to do anything?
Thank you.
Paul
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for the delay and for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
That is not the expected behavior of the Strip category base option. If you have enabled it, the old URLs with
/category/should redirect to the non-category URLs.Yes, the indexed URLs on the Google search results page will show that error since they are showing error 404.
In this case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins, together with the affected URL/s in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
Thank you, and we really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
Thank you for the follow-up, and sorry for the delay.
You can revert the changes by disabling the Strip Category Base option in Rank Math > General Settings > Links. Then your category archive pages should work with the
/category/in their URLs again.
Please let us know how this goes.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and looking forward to your update.
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