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We've replaced our category pages with WP Show posts - duplicate pages issue
1 reply · Started by David on July 2, 2020
Hello, we've followed your guide here: https://docs.wpshowposts.com/article/use-static-pages-as-category-archives/
This works fine and our category pages look like this: https://socialpronow.com/blog/category/making-conversation/
However, to achieve that we had to create a static page for each category page, like you write here "Now you need to create a new static page with that matching slug: yoursite.com/best-vacations"
As a result, we have have these corresponding pages: https://socialpronow.com/making-conversation/ (Note that they are on a different URL than the category pages).
We tried unlisting them through WP, but then WP automatically added a noindex to the live category page as well. What do you propose we do with our static pages to avoid duplicate content issues?
Hi there,
I would personally 301 redirect your existing categories to the static page URLs. That will create a permanent redirect to avoid duplicate content.
In GP 2.5, we've introduced an action that can be used to take over the post loop and insert your own, so this will be much easier :)
