Hi,
I noticed the URL you are getting has the category twice:
/blog/expert-articles/expert-articles/how-internet-marketing-increases-business-sales/
That usually means one of these things is happening:
- The post slug or custom permalink already includes expert-articles/
- A permalink/custom permalink plugin has saved a manual URL for the post
- The permalink rules need to be refreshed
I would suggest checking the post edit screen first. Make sure the post slug is only:
how-internet-marketing-increases-business-sales
and not:
expert-articles/how-internet-marketing-increases-business-sales
Then go to:
Settings > Permalinks
and click Save Changes without changing anything. This refreshes the rewrite rules.
Also check if you are using any permalink-related plugin. If yes, look for a custom permalink value on that post and remove the extra expert-articles/ part.
I believe the correct structure should be:
/blog/category-slug/post-slug/
not:
/blog/category-slug/category-slug/post-slug/
I had the mistake in the part of my first message about second case.
I have not double category. It’s a misspell.
I need to make working this url: /blog/expert-articles/how-internet-marketing-increases-business-sales/
But if i add “blog” in custom permalink, then it doesn’t work.
This custom permalink (/blog/%category%/%postname%/) breaks article’s link and it stops to open
However, this link works “/blog/expert-articles/”. I can’t understand what the matter is
Hello,
Thank you for clarifying.
It looks like the issue may be that WordPress is already using blog for the category archive URL.
For example, this URL works:
/blog/expert-articles/
So WordPress may be treating that as the category archive and according to the output of that page on your site that seems to be the case.
Then when you try this post URL:
/blog/expert-articles/how-internet-marketing-increases-business-sales/
WordPress may try to read it as another category level instead of a post, and that can cause the 404.
I would suggest checking this first:
Settings > Permalinks
Then look at the optional field:
Category base
If it is set to:
blog
try removing it or changing it to something else, then click Save Changes.
For example, you could use:
/blog/%category%/%postname%/
for posts, but avoid also using blog as the category base.
So the conflict may not be the post slug now. It may be that both the category archive and the post permalink are trying to use the same /blog/category/ structure.
