Title: Category base strip
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Category base strip

 *  [trexagyreve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trexagyreve/)
 * (@trexagyreve)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-base-strip/)
 * Hello Joost,
 * Recently, on Google Webmaster Tools it shows under “HTML Improvements” duplicate
   title tags issues for some old posts, e.g.
    [http://www.mysite.com/actual_category/postname](http://www.mysite.com/actual_category/postname)&
   [http://www.mysite.com/uncategorized/postname](http://www.mysite.com/uncategorized/postname)
 * These posts, however, are published under ONLY the actual_category (double-checked
   in WP admin and the database and the “uncategorized” has no posts), which means
   that the [http://www.mysite.com/uncategorized/postname](http://www.mysite.com/uncategorized/postname)
   shouldn’t and doesn’t really exist.
 * I understand that maybe I first saved the post as draft without having assigned
   any category to it, WP automatically saved it under the “uncategorized” category
   and for some strange reason Googlebot got it although it was still a draft. _Do
   you have an explanation for this_?
 * I also realized that having the “Strip the category base…” option enabled, in
   the URL, one may replace the actual category slug with whatever text and it will
   301 redirect to the correct URL – for example check [http://yoast.com/writewhateveryouwant/wordpress-seo/](http://yoast.com/writewhateveryouwant/wordpress-seo/)(
   instead of the correct [http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/](http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/)
   where the wrong URL gets redirected to).
 * So, I deleted the “uncategorized” category as well as all revisions and hopefully
   the next time Googlebot passes by it will be 301 redirected to the correct URL
   and therefore there will be no duplicate issues; _**correct?**_
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-base-strip/)
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