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Products load under wrong category paths

Products open under wrong or extra category paths, creating duplicate URLs instead of a 404 error.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 12 October 2023 · last reported 2 October 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Store owners report that a product page opens when the address includes a wrong or unrelated category name, and in other cases when a parent or child category is left out.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.