Title: permalink structure ignoring “uncategorized” posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# permalink structure ignoring “uncategorized” posts

 *  [tav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tav/)
 * (@tav)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-ignoring-uncategorized-posts/)
 * Is there a way to allow the /%category%/%postname%/ permalink structure work 
   with posts that don’t end up in a particular category? ie, if they are uncategorized,
   my links end up as [http://www.myblog.com//postname](http://www.myblog.com//postname)(
   I get the double slash since the category is not specified)
 * Is this supposed to happen? I am using smart_rss and often some of my feeds don’t
   end up in a defined category, so those posts won’t open! Please pardon my ignorance
   if this is a simple thing and this is a stupid question!

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 *  [Jeremy Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremyclark13/)
 * (@jeremyclark13)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-ignoring-uncategorized-posts/#post-642092)
 * Make sure to set one category as default in your manage categories screen. Then
   if you don’t select a category at least one will be assigned.
 *  Thread Starter [tav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tav/)
 * (@tav)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-ignoring-uncategorized-posts/#post-642142)
 * Hey jeremy
 * Thanx for the reply. However the defailt category was set – but strangely enough,
   posts weren’t going into that category I specified. I’m wondering if Smart_rss
   isn’t working anymore although the plugin says it will work.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-structure-ignoring-uncategorized-posts/#post-642142)
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