Subcategory can be accessed from many links

[Sebastien]

Hi GP team,

I am really baffled by this one and hope you guys can help me. I have a parent category called “gay travel destinations” and a sub category called “Southeast Asia”, which can be accessed with this link:

My issue is that if I change the “parent slug within that URL” to anything, I can still access the southeast asia category. If I remove the slug parent from that URL, I can still access the subcategory too. Example:

This happens for any of my subcategories on my blog. I think it’s always been like this, I just never noticed it.

Any ideas and suggestions on how to fix this please?

Many thanks
Sebastien

[Tom]

Hi there,

I believe this is WordPress guessing the URL you’re looking for.

Perhaps this will help: https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-url-autocorrect-guessing/

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
Ongoing Development: https://generatepress.com/ongoing-development

[Sebastien]

Hey Tom,

Thanks for this. I removed the URLs as I do not want them to be crawled. Thansk for the plugin recommendation, sounds perfect.

Many thanks
Sebastien

[Tom]

No problem!

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/
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