Unable to remove parent category from slug with permalinks

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    davehurst78 · Member ·

    My website has recipes based on a parent and child category, such as Slow Cooker Recipes -> Bread -> Post Name.

    Currently the url is like this:

    Basic Brown Bread

    This is a combination of the Parent Category, then Child Category PLUS Parent Category, then the Post Name.

    I don’t want the duplication, and ideally would like the Child Category PLUS Parent Category combination as this works very well.

    So this would be ideal:

    Basic Brown Bread

    How can I do this?

    My Permalink structure is Custom -> /%category%/%postname%/

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    davehurst78 · Member ·

    Sorry that didn’t work…

    Current defaults to “/slow-cooker-recipes/bread-slow-cooker-recipes/basic-brown-bread/”

    I want the default to be “/bread-slow-cooker-recipes/basic-brown-bread/”

    Both work due to category resolution.

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    davehurst78 · Member ·

    UPDATE: I realised the child category was being combined once again (duplicated) with the parent category because I had another Parent Category called “Bread”.

    My slug using /%Category%/ is now “/slow-cooker-recipes/bread/” which is better than the long slug I had previously.

    I’ll leave this post here as it may help someone! I struggled to realise the issue!

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