categories not showing or working

  • Resolved streamingdancefitness

    (@streamingdancefitness)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hi

    Newbie to WP so I’m sure I’ve made a idiot mistake here

    I’ve search and found a few articles but still can’t get the categories to work or display in the url

    For example the category made is “help”

    In Permalink Settings I’ve changed to /%category%/%postname%/

    In Yoast SEO / taxonomies I’ve changed to show “Categories in search results”

    When I view the pages it shows pages listed and the category (help), when I view the page details it shows that its within a category (help) but the url slug is not showing the category so only demo.co.uk/test-page not demo.co.uk/help/test-page

    Can anyone help

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for reaching out.

    First, we will like to mention that you cannot add a category to pages. We suspect you are referring to posts. To provide some context, can you share the URL of the website and the specific post where you are experiencing the issue.

    Thread Starter streamingdancefitness

    (@streamingdancefitness)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    thanks and thats where I’m going wrong as I’m trying to add categories to pages.

    I was told this was an option as I’m rebuilding a static site but want to hold onto current page names to hold rankings on google so example demo.co.uk/help/test-page.html

    I’ve installed a plugin so that pages get called .html but on the current site I have folders called “help” and was told by using a category this would achieve it…by the sounds of things given the wrong advice

    Is there any other way to hold onto current page names ?

    thanks

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    If you’re rebuilding a static site and using a plugin to have your pages end in .html, you may consider reaching out to the developer of that plugin for further assistance.

    Also, since the pages didn’t exist before on your WordPress site, you should be able to maintain the same name, however without .html. And by default, you cannot have pages with categories in WordPress.

    Thread Starter streamingdancefitness

    (@streamingdancefitness)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    yeah I’ll try contacting them to see if they can help.

    regarding page names maybe I didn’t explain myself correct.

    I’ve tried to maintain page names that are on my current static site, so using example page http://www.site.co.uk/help/word-press.html

    The plugin now shows the .html but if I use backslash in the page name it changes this to – so http://www.site.co.uk/help/word-press.html becomes http://www.site.co.uk/help-word-press.html this is the problem

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Can you temporarily deactivate the Yoast SEO plugin to see if the issue persists?

    Thread Starter streamingdancefitness

    (@streamingdancefitness)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    deactivated it and made no difference used slug help/word-press hit enter and WP converted it to help-word-press.html 🙁

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    This means it is not related to your use of the Yoast SEO plugin since the issue persists even without our plugin active.

    The developer of the plugin you use to add .html to the end of your URLs will be able to provide guidance on what you are trying to achieve and how best to resolve the problem.

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter streamingdancefitness

    (@streamingdancefitness)

    2 years, 11 months ago

    thanks for your help

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