Missing Permalink box in Pages and other sections

  • Resolved hopsakee

    (@hopsakee)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    Some sections in my WordPress theme do have categories and with that I am able to make custom permalinks.

    I have a few questions about this:

    1. If I make a custom URL (see new URL) with a category, will Yoast overwrite the original URL without the custom category and will it not be indexed twice?

    For instance:
    Original URL: https://www.mydomain.com/happy-new-year-2020
    New URL: https://www.mydomain.com/blog/happy-new-year-2020

    2. My second question is about adding categories to sections.

    I have a few sections like Pages etc. that don’t show any box with permalinks settings an categories.

    With this I am not able to create custom permalinks like: https://www.mydomain.com/products/HD-8k-television

    I have checked taxonomies in Search Appearance, but only see categories there from the section in my WordPress theme that do have categories.
    Can I add manually Categories for other sections, so that I can add categories to my pages for instance (which are not shown currently?)

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by hopsakee.
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  • Hi,

    You identified several issues. We have responded to them below.

    1. If I make a custom URL (see new URL) with a category, will Yoast overwrite the original URL without the custom category and will it not be indexed twice?
    If you add a category as part of an existing URL, WordPress makes the redirect. So https://www.mydomain.com/happy-new-year-2020 gets redirected to https://www.mydomain.com/blog/happy-new-year-2020.

    Google will then eventually drop the old one without the category off the index in favor of the new one.

    2.I have a few sections like Pages etc. that don’t show any box with permalinks settings an categories.
    This is expected behavior. By default some sections do not have the ability to add categories/taxonomies. Pages is one such section. However, you can add taxonomies to it by using another plugin. We suggest reviewing the WordPress plugin repository for a plugin that can best match your needs:?https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/.

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    This thread has been marked as resolved due to a lack of activity.

    You’re always welcome to re-open this topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

    Thanks for understanding!

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