[jyoon96Participant]

I just want to know how I can override the category pages with a normal static page. This is what currently happens: I make a page named “hello” and a category named “hello”. When I click “hello” on the navigation, I want it to direct me to the “hello” static page and not the “hello” category page. This is in order to maintain my silo structure, because I do need the category but I would like to use a static page rather than displaying all my posts.

[jyoon96Participant]

I found this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ do you think I can use this plugin to just redirect the category link to the page link? Or will that ruin my onsite SEO? I really need to get this silo structure working.

[Rue NelModerator]

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in!

You can simply have your menu items directly points to the static page. Having it this way, you navigation will always make sure to point the user going to the static page and not on the category page. The permalink structure would always look like this:

http://www.your-domain.com/hello/
http://www.your-domain.com/category/hello/

Regarding SEO impact on the site, we cannot really give you a good answer for that. It would be a good idea to ask the experts for this. Please check out out XIP section here, https://community.theme.co//xip/, you may can find some answers.

Thank you for your understanding.

[jyoon96Participant]

The reason why this doesn’t work is because I used Yoast to remove the category from the permalink so that both the category and the normal page link to the same place. However, wordpress by default has the category override the page, I would like to flip it so that the page overrides the category.

[FriechModerator]

Hi There,

Using a 301 redirect is the simple fix, if you need to permanently move a page from one URL to another.

Thanks!

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