Category URLs, Canonical and sitemap don’t match

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Hi,

This is a little more of an issue than I thought.

I copied to a dev site (https://genroe2019.wpengine.com) and deactivated all plugins except Yoast.

Note
(a) Permalinks set to: /blog/%postname%/%post_id%
(b) Yoast “Category URLs: Remove the categories prefix” is set to Remove.

Here is the category site map for the dev site: https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/category-sitemap.xml

Sample URLs and outcomes (from the category-sitemap.xml):

(1) https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/blog/customer-feedback

NO Advance / Canonical URL set in the Category settings.

Outcomes
– URL is incorrect: should not have /blog/ in it
– URL redirects (somewhere) to the correct URL: https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/customer-feedback
– Canonical on correct URL is incorrect: https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/blog/customer-feedback

(2) https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/blog/b2b-marketing/content-marketing

NO Advance / Canonical URL set in the Category settings.

Outcomes:
– URL incorrect: should not have /blog/ in it
– URL gets re-directed to a specific page rather than the sub-category archive page?: https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/blog/content-marketing-tips/12608
– Because it doesn’t go to the sub-Category page I can’t check the Canonical URL

(3) https://genroe2019.wpengine.com/b2b-marketing/ab-testing

This HAS Advance / Canonical URL set in the Category settings.

Outcomes
– Link goes to category list as expected.
– Canonical is correct

Regards,
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Okay – I have created the GitHub bug report: https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/13827

Bugs are reported, investigated and fixed in GitHub so this topic was closed in favor of the open issue.