second child slug taking parent category

  • What’s the story with WordPress adding the parent category to the end of a child category if you already have a child category with the same name? I mean, this has totally ruined my site. All this development and now I finally get down to creating the navigation structure and find this absurd architecture. I’m selling multiple products in multiple states, eg., red-widgets/washington, blue-widgets/washington. Turns out that’s a no-no. The second one becomes blue-widgets/washington-blue-widgets. What on earth is that supposed to be about? This is supposed to be a search friendly CMS. You could do a sensible, common sense navigation architecture like the above in two seconds on a static html site.

    Additionally, I see now that I’ve also hit this ridiculous hurdle, lots of threads here from others asking about this. No response from WordPress. Silence. And I see this goes back two years or so, this issue. Nothing. Silence. No change to it.

    Any new recent workarounds to this? It’s complete and utter crap. You look like a search engine spammer with keywords autocrammed in your URLs now. orange-widget/washington is a very different URL to orange-widget/washington-orange-widget, especially if your site is called orange widget and your page also. https://www.orangewidget.com/orange-widget/washington-orange-widget/orange-widgets-seattle.html. Goodbye rankings before the site is even out of the starting gate. You’ll be lucky if you make the supplemental index. And this is supposed to be an SEO CMS. What a laugh.

    So any new workarounds for this?

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I’m selling multiple products in multiple states, eg., red-widgets/washington, blue-widgets/washington.

    You can;t have two categories with the same names. In that example, you have four categories:
    1) Red Widgets
    2) Blue Widgets
    3) Washington
    4) Washington

    While you can certainly change the category slugs in Washington, they still must be individual.

    Why not do things differently. Use Categories for your products and then TAGS for your states? Or the other way around.

    Thread Starter spinzz

    (@waterprism)

    Hi, Ipstenu. Thanks. The thing is with that, one wants the search engines to understand your architecture. https://www.widgets.com/red-widgets/washington/red-widgets-seattle.html lets them know. One wants the search engine to know how you’re siloed for helping people find red widgets in their city. That’s definitely a better structure than https://www.widgets.com/red-widgets/red-widgets-seattle.html, even if I tag it with Washington. In a static website, the server wouldn’t see two child folders with the same name as duplicates. It wouldn’t see it as child-folder and child-folder but /parent-1/child-folder, /parent-2/child-folder. Totally different folders. WordPress, not so.

    Additionally, I’ve got a dropdown category navigation that I want to deploy here with so many products and areas, like ‘red-widget’ and the drop down is ‘Washington’, ‘Texas’, etc., and the same for ‘blue-widget’. And just using one top product or state category makes that impossible.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Actually https://www.widgets.com/red-widgets-seattle/ would be the BEST for both SEO and HEO (human experience optimization).

    And as of WordPress 3.3 you CAN use %postname% as your permailnk without crashing things.

    (Also SEO would rather you NOT put .html on your permalinks unless you have to.)

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • The topic ‘second child slug taking parent category’ is closed to new replies.