Title: Wrong Category Paths
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Wrong Category Paths

 *  [Lutz.H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lutzh-1/)
 * (@lutzh-1)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-category-paths/)
 * Hi there!
 * I just figured out that Google Webmaster Tools shows lots of error messages. 
   They come from wrong category names e.g. “example.com/android” instead of “example.
   com/category/android” (see here: [http://mobiwatch.de/category-sitemap.xml](http://mobiwatch.de/category-sitemap.xml))
 * In addition, there’s a problem when I’m trying to add a category to my menu navigation(
   via “Design – Menues – Categories – Add to Menue), these links also say “example.
   com/android” (without the “category” in it’s path). But those pages or urls aren’t
   existing …
 * I left the WordPress setting by default, just switched in “permalinks” the post
   links to “example.com/postname”, that’s all. The field “Category Basis” is left
   blank.
 * I really hope somebody can help me with that because I don’t have a clue wthat
   to do!
 * Thanks in advance!!!

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-category-paths/#post-2938456)
 * > But those pages or urls aren’t existing …
 * Your ‘wrong’ category URLs do work. For example, the blackberry category at “
   [http://mobiwatch.de/blackberry/&#8221](http://mobiwatch.de/blackberry/&#8221);
   is full of posts about blackberry phones, and if you check the HTML source you
   can see that it is loading from a category template.
 * Your “[http://mobiwatch.de/category/*&#8221](http://mobiwatch.de/category/*&#8221);
   URLs work too, in a sense. You have a 301 redirect from those URLs to the URLs
   without the ‘category’ part. That is, from “[http://mobiwatch.de/category/blackberry/&#8221](http://mobiwatch.de/category/blackberry/&#8221);
   to “[http://mobiwatch.de/blackberry/&#8221](http://mobiwatch.de/blackberry/&#8221);
 * If all you did was click the “Post Name” radio button at wp-admin->Settings->
   Permalinks then something else is causing this– a plugin or something in your
   theme.
 * Is this a new install or an old site?
 *  Thread Starter [Lutz.H](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lutzh-1/)
 * (@lutzh-1)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-category-paths/#post-2938459)
 * @s_ha_dum Thanks, but in the meantime I found a plugin that cancelles all appeareances
   of “/category” – that’s why now appearing posts e.g. in “…/blackberry” (without“
   category”). Earlier there was always a 404 error ..

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