Title: URGENT: Plugins created multiple permalinks
Last modified: August 21, 2016
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# URGENT: Plugins created multiple permalinks
* Resolved [rikay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rikay/)
* (@rikay)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-plugins-created-multiple-permalinks/)
* Hi,
* First of all, I really like this plugin and it’s simplicity! But I was checking
my website analytics lately and saw that some people visited my site through
a google search result that showed the wrong URL. I’ll explain: I use an extra
category called “featured” to highlight posts on the homepage. I use this plugin
to give the “featured” post in, for example, the category eyecandy the correct
url, like mywebsite.com/eyecandy/postname. Now this plugin nicely creates the
right permalink, but it somehow also creates the permalink mywebsite.com/featured/
postname.
* So the plugin basicly creates permalinks for every category you check, and only
shows the “right” permalink on the website. HOWEVER, the posts are still accesable
trough all other permalinks. If you create a post with, for example, the category
tags “featured”, “eyecandy” and “pics” and check “eyecandy” as permalink, the
url /eyecandy/test-post will be generated. BUT the post is also accesable trough/
pics/test-post and /eyecandy/test-post.
* Google will probably see this as duplicated content and will drag you website
down to oblivion. Can you please fix this problem?
* Here are some live examples of permalinks that all show the same post without
redirecting to the correct category url, which is pics/postname:
* [http://mhmag.nl/pics/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos](http://mhmag.nl/pics/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos)
* [http://mhmag.nl/featured/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos”](http://mhmag.nl/featured/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos”);
* [http://mhmag.nl/eyecandy/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos](http://mhmag.nl/eyecandy/graffiti-op-ontblote-vrouwenlijven-45-fotos)
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-permalink/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-permalink/)
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* [Pixelein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelein/)
* (@pixelein)
* [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-plugins-created-multiple-permalinks/#post-4718477)
* Eagerly awaiting a resolution for this because this is indeed a very harmful
situation.
* The SEO thing to do would be to insert a
`` in the head of all the non-first-choice-pages.
But saying that… i wouldn’t know where to start (as of yet).
* Looking into this myself and hoping the writer of the plugin beats me to the
punch 😉
* [Pixelein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelein/)
* (@pixelein)
* [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-plugins-created-multiple-permalinks/#post-4718563)
* Rikay, wordpress itself or the seo plugin of yoast already fixed this by inserting
just a link in the head.
If you find you don’t have such a link in your already, you can make one yourself by doing something like the following (not
perfected yet):
* Place this code in your functions.php:
* ```
function wp_cat_permalink_multi_link_SEO_fix() {
global $post;
$cat_id = get_post_meta( $post->ID , '_category_permalink', true );
if (is_single()) {
if ( $cat_id != null ) {
//do nothing
} else {
$cat = get_the_category();
echo '';
}
}
}
```
* You can then use this in the head:
``
* Good luck!
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* Last reply from: [Pixelein](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pixelein/)
* Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/urgent-plugins-created-multiple-permalinks/#post-4718563)
* Status: resolved