Title: Does Changing Categories Create Duplicate Posts?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Does Changing Categories Create Duplicate Posts?

 *  [ccano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccano/)
 * (@ccano)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-changing-categories-create-duplicate-posts/)
 * Hi, my permalink structure is set to %category%/%postname%/ and now I would like
   to change some category names. I’ve noticed that WordPress creates a new post(
   with new URL) when I change the category, and the old post with the old URL remains
   accessible, too. What I would prefer is for the old URL to direct to the new 
   one, so that I don’t have duplicate pages in Google. Is there an easy way to 
   do this redirect?
 * Thanks,
    Chris

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