Title: [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Problem with hiding Category Basic in Permalink!
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Problem with hiding Category Basic in Permalink!

 *  [DSchlaak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschlaak/)
 * (@dschlaak)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/)
 * Hi!
 * Since the last plugin update today we allways get error pages on category sites
   of [http://www.socialmediaballoon.de](http://www.socialmediaballoon.de). There
   is a problem with hiding the category basic. If I enter /category/ by hand the
   category page works.
 * Thanks!!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  Thread Starter [DSchlaak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dschlaak/)
 * (@dschlaak)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2869954)
 * I deactivated and activated the “hide category basic option” and now it works…:-
   S
 *  [Halo Diehard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halo-diehard/)
 * (@halo-diehard)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870089)
 * I’ve deactivated and activated the “hide category basic option” twice in the 
   last few days and it worked at first but then it goes back to “Page not found”
   This was happening before the latest update and I thought the update fixed it
   so I didn’t report this yesterday, but the problem is back.
 *  [ruralscotland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruralscotland/)
 * (@ruralscotland)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870095)
 * I now also have the problem as above, when this plugin is activated, none of 
   the categories in the menu are working or resolving correctly. At present I am
   running my site without SEO
 *  [Nick Verwymeren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greatwitenorth/)
 * (@greatwitenorth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870146)
 * I had the same issue running wp 3.4.1 with wordpress seo v1.2.5 and the above
   solution worked for me. Simply deactivating and reactivating the “Strip the category
   base” option fixed the problem.
 *  [brian@foxxr.com](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brianfoxxrcom/)
 * (@brianfoxxrcom)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870153)
 * I have the same issues with all of the sites I updated. Primarily running Genesis.
   Help Yoast!! Help.
 *  [sireneweb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sireneweb/)
 * (@sireneweb)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870165)
 * i have the same problem with wp 3.4.1 and WordPress SEO 1.2.5, “strip the category
   base” option doesn’t work, i try to disable and enable again but nothing….
 * after i’m getting 404 error when i try to click on the category from articles
 *  [ryanhudes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ryanhudes/)
 * (@ryanhudes)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870223)
 * My site is having this same problem… Category links from menus aren’t working
   when enabling this feature. I’m also running Genesis if that helps…
 *  [Lrozenberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lrozenberg/)
 * (@lrozenberg)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-problem-with-hiding-category-basic-in-permalink/#post-2870348)
 * Same here.. Please fix this!

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