V1 to V2 Urls/permalinks change - category base?

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October 2, 2019 at 8:35 pm #511320

coreyhammond
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We’re migrating from v1 to V2 and noticed that some of our urls changed, specifically these:

https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/water-damage-1/

is now:

https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/category/water-damage-1/

How can we prevent the category base from being there? We want to keep all our urls the same. I tried removing ‘category’ from the category base field in the permalink settings but it says its required.

October 2, 2019 at 8:50 pm #511325

Kor
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Hi there,

Thanks for your post. This is related to your permalinks. Refer to this section of the documentation https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/settings/permalinks/ for your reference.

October 3, 2019 at 12:41 pm #511401

coreyhammond
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Thanks for the documentation – may I ask which part explains the change from v1 to v2, and shows how to remove the category slug from the permalink? I think I must be missing it.

October 3, 2019 at 11:32 pm #511516

Alex Rollin
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The category base slug is required. To remove it would require a customization outside of what we can help with here in support.

October 4, 2019 at 1:48 pm #511612

coreyhammond
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Ok – what about the redirects, because it seems there are issues:

https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/california/anaheim-ca/mold-1/ > https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/california/alta-loma-ca/california-certified-mold/ – These are the same places, one is a category page, the other is a detail page

https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/georgia/atlanta-ga/mold-1/ > https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/georgia/cumming-ga/georgia-water-fire-restoration/

Same result, a place category to a detail listing, not the same page

https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/missouri/kansas-city-mo/mold-1/ to https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/category/mold-1/missouri/kansas-city-mo/missouri/kansas-city-mo/

This one attempts to redirect to a new place category, but failed to match?

This is all because of the new permalink/url structures in wpgeodirectory. We have an existing website as you can see, and if these redirects arent accurately handled, it makes a mess. This happens to all our categories and locations:

https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/fire-damage-1/ to https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/fire-damage-1/ – broken 404

October 4, 2019 at 2:46 pm #511623

Alex Rollin
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Have you already enabled the option in

GeoDirectory – Settings – General (tab) – Developer – Show advanced – Enable 404 rescue

Try that and if it doesn’t work for you please share WP Admin credentials in a private reply so we can check the settings.

October 4, 2019 at 3:01 pm #511625

coreyhammond
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Yes – that is enabled and is whats causing the bad redirects. If I take it off (the setting), they all just 404 🙁

October 4, 2019 at 3:02 pm #511626

coreyhammond
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October 6, 2019 at 3:06 pm #511799

Alex Rollin
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October 6, 2019 at 3:08 pm #511800

Alex Rollin
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For all the permalink patterns see:

https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/geodirectory/settings/permalinks/

October 7, 2019 at 12:28 pm #511935

coreyhammond
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October 7, 2019 at 2:47 pm #511966

Kor
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Hi coreyhammond,

Thanks for your reply. Yes, you can remove the /%category%/ from the permalinks as shown in the attached screenshot.

October 7, 2019 at 5:58 pm #512014

coreyhammond
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Old URL: https://www.restorationlocal.com/places/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/fire-damage-1/

There is no redirect then, and the new version will 404

https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/fire-damage-1/ – broken 404

We have 404 rescue setting in place too. Thoughts? its trying to redirect to https://wip.restorationlocal.com/places/category/fire-damage-1/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/pennsylvania/philadelphia-pa/ which seems like its duplicating the region and city

October 8, 2019 at 7:57 am #512073

Kor
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Hi coreyhammond,

Thanks for your reply. You need a redirection plugin to help with this. Changing the permalinks will not redirect the old links for you.

October 8, 2019 at 10:20 am #512098

Kiran
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Hi coreyhammond,

In GDv2 we have implemented category & tags base slug because in GDv1 we seen issues of identify listing & category urls.
In GDv1 listing url and category url are almost same so rewrite urls shows incorrect page when category & listing slugs are same.

Let us know.

Kiran
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