WooCommerce Product Category Base Disappeared

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  • Resolved Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hi,

    Before, the URL strucuture was working perfectly as intended. /shop as main shop site (not really in use), prodcut categories as /[product-category] and the products themselves underneath that structure at /[product-category]/[product]. Now, /[product-category]/[product] is just /[product]. The settings haven’t really been changed at all. On the site, the URL structure still appears intact, as I’ve added 301 redirections to temporarily “fix” this problem, but the underlying URLs should be set as intended again too, of course.

    Any help is greatly appreciated, as I went through all the options but couldn’t find the issue causing this to change now.

    Thanks,
    Jan

    • This topic was modified 4 years ago by Jan.
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  • Todd

    4 years ago

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    Hi Jan,

    Thanks for getting in touch with us.

    You must have enabled the strip show and category bases options in Rank math.

    If you wish, you can disable the option and everything will go back to being as it was.

    ;WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > WooCommerce.

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hey Todd,

    Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

    I’m not quite sure which options you advise to change exactly. In the sensitive data are are some snapshots of the related settings.

    Best,
    Jan

    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Michael Davis

    4 years ago

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    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

    You will need to disable the first two options on your screenshot as shown below:
    Screenshot

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hi, I did that, which in combination with %category% in the WP permalink settings, lead to the right URL structure being displayed in the shop site. But unfortunately, those all lead to 404s on the product pages themselves (see sensitive data).

    • This reply was modified 4 years ago by Jan.
    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Michael Davis

    4 years ago

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    Hi Jan,

    Thanks for the reply.

    Here is a screenshot of how the default settings should look like :

    Permalinks

    I hope this helps. Thank you.

    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Hi Michael,

    I understand, but what I had achieved before and want to have is /[product-category]/[product] as the URL structure. I don’t want some default base (such as /product/) and instead the product category for the product pages’ hierarchy.

    Thank you,
    Jan

    Todd

    4 years ago

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    Hi Jan,

    Please head over to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks.

    Choose Custom base and use this setting:
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    Then, head over to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > WooCommerce.

    Turn these three options off:
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    That will do the trick and your product pages will show up as:
    /[product-category]/[product]

    Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    Jan

    4 years ago

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    Thank you, /%product_cat%/ did the trick!

    Michael Davis

    4 years ago

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    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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