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Yes I have a cache plugins, maybe I will clear that and see what happens.

No, not receiving any htaccess error notices.

Out of curiosity, I checked other websites to see if this is a WordPress feature by design, am happy to see that the same thing happens to other websites also, so probably not a bug in my site.

Again, the issue is that I created the following post (as an example)
http://www.mydomain.com/category1/title1

and when visitors click the following URL without category in the URL

http://www.mydomain.com/title1

wordpress will automatically redirect visitors to the one that I created, ie: the one with category in the URL http://www.mydomain.com/category1/title1

I tried on other people’s website and it seems to be happening to other people’s websites too , see real life example here from another website:

https://beartproject.com/collections/high-school-2015/

If you access the above URL without the word “collections” like this

https://beartproject.com/high-school-2015/

you will be automatically redirected to the URL with category in the slug, ie:

https://beartproject.com/collections/high-school-2015/

I tested a couple other websites and it is the same.

This is very important, because to me it means that WordPress does NOT treat the following 2 URLs as 2 separate and different URLs

http://www.mydomain.com/category1/title1
http://www.mydomain.com/title1

It will have a huge impact on how I name and keep track of the filenames I use.

Thanks Denzel.

I only created this page
http://hairsite.com/city-guide/hair-transplant-guide-boston/

I never created this (a post according to you)
http://hairsite.com/hair-transplant-guide-boston/

So my question:

Is this WordPress by design to automatically create a 2nd URL without the parent or category slug? in this case the parent or category slug is “city-guide”.

Again I never created the one you said is a POST. is this WordPress by design to automatically create the one you said is a POST and without the parent category in the slug or URL ?

It is becoming very confusing and difficult to manage my contents now because WordPress automatically generates a 2nd URL for everything that I created for as long as I have a parent category in the slug or URL.

Thanks