URL has unwanted added slug-level

  • Resolved larsstl

    (@larsstl)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,
    I am having trouble with my website URL:
    In GSC all the indexed pages contain an additional (unwanted) slug-level: They contain the word “Startseite” (german for “startpage”) for all my german pages, and /en/cimoio-english/” for the english translations.
    I read through the following links:
    Removing Homepage Slug
    Mad with slug
    Homepage slug on Google
    But I have the feeling neither is answering my issue.

    I am using wordpress with DIVI theme, Polylang and Yoast – and at the moment I am not sure, which plug-in is causing this issue.
    I followed the description in “Removing homepage slug” by putting my german version of my startpage in the “Settings>Reading for ‘Your Home Page Displays’” – but the “Startseite”-part and the /en/english-cimoio/ of the slug still is there.

    Currently my sitemap for sites looks like this:

    URL
    https://www.cimoio.de/cms/
    https://www.cimoio.de/cms/startseite/unsere-kunden/luftfahrt/
    https://www.cimoio.de/cms/startseite/unsere-kunden/bildungsanbieter/
    https://www.cimoio.de/cms/en/cimoio-english/data-privacy-statement/

    Can anyone advise?

    • This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by larsstl.
    • This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by larsstl.

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Larsstl,

    Thanks for reaching out regarding your slug.

    You mentioned that you have set the German version as the static homepage for the site in WordPress > Settings > Reading. To clarify, is https://www.cimoio.de/cms/ correct as the German homepage which you will like to see?

    We look forward to hearing from you.

    Thread Starter larsstl

    (@larsstl)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Maybellyne,
    thank you for your quick reaction.
    Yes, that is absolutely right.
    However, that URL is represented by a wordpress site that carries a different “name” if that is of any relevance?
    And I just now realize, that it may very well be my own fault and a “works as designed” mistake.
    In the Yoast SEO-block, I inserted “startseite” as a value in the “permalink” field. Is that the mistake I made?

    Thread Starter larsstl

    (@larsstl)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Ok, a little testing later: so the permalink of my start page becomes a default-part of my URL-structure.
    Is there a way I can “delete” or rather “suppress” this behaviour?

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks for following up.

    You mentioned that you inserted “startseite” as a value in the permalink field. Can you share a screenshot of that, please? Also, if you remove that word from the permalink field, does it resolve the issue?

    You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

    Thread Starter larsstl

    (@larsstl)

    3 years, 5 months ago

    Hello Maybellyne,
    thank you for the reply.
    So, I deleted the “Startseite” from the permalink field and it was immediately and automatically filled with the name of the page I created in wordpress.

    Here the image: Screenshot of Yoast in backend

    The name of the page is currently “cimoio DE” – and this page-name is now included in all URLs.
    However, I think I just now found out about a fundamentally important functionality of wordpress itself:
    To mirror my menu-structure, I used the wordpress functionality “page attributes” to order my pages the same way I ordered my menue. And that is, what causes this structure – not any of my plug-ins.
    So: case solved – thank you very much for helping me chase this “works-as-designed-just-read-the-manual”-bug.

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