WP adding subfolders to pages

See if this can help

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

Right now, the site is set to use custom permalinks: /%category%/%postname%/

They have 4 city locations, each represented as a page. Any pages that deal with a particular city are child pages under it. The blog also uses category names with the same stubs as the cities so that when posting to that category/city, they appear as a child page under that city stub as well.

This has been working for the last 6 months, so I’m not sure if that structure is what’s causing the issue or not.

Sorry to bump this. We’re still having this issue, and it’s starting to affect our indexing in search engines.

In your Dashboard, go to Posts > Categories and in the list of Categories, is there one labelled “26-2”?

If you hover over each Category, there is a “Quick Edit” link. Select it and the Category “slug” will be visible. Check each one to see if “26-2” is in the slug.

If not, try deactivating all your plugins and then go to the page: https://1800solarusa.net/26-2/austin/reviews/. Does it give a “404 Error Page Not Found” or is it actually there?

Nope, there’s no categories that have that stub. It also seems to only be affecting pages, but only certain pages/child pages. I also deactivated all the plugins and there’s no change.

Okay, this is odd… The only thing I can suggest, if you haven’t tried this already, is to deactivate all your plugins and navigate to https://1800solarusa.net/26-2/austin/reviews/. Hopefully it will give you a 404 Not Found.

If so, then activate the plugins one by one until the page reappears. That plugin should be the culprit.

A list of your plugins and the theme that you are using would be helpful, also.