Hi Arianna, did you try setting to /%Postname%/ through custom permalink structure? Does it break as well?

Happy to hear you found it helpful!

Hi there, Richard!

I would suggest trying to reset your permalinks to another structure and then back to /%category%/%postaname%
If this won’t help, don’t hesitate to contact our Customer Success team – we’ll check out your case further!

My issue is that I want to create permalink for pages but the categories is not appearing in the url.

expectation url: https://website/categories/post
actual url: https://website/post.

I have only one plugin: Pages with category and tag.

In the setting–> permalink I have chosen: custom structure: /%category%/%postname%/

Is this an issue with WordPress 5.5?

If ‘AllowOverride All’ isn’t in your main apache or httpd configuration file for the WordPress directory location, all the wrangling you do won’t fix the problem.

Sometimes, you’re on a multi-site host and this isn’t under your control. You’ll have to contact the hosting provider’s support to report the problem. If you have control over the configuration of the httpd server, these lines have to exist in the main httpd.conf file for your server:
* note: the directory location here has to point at the wordpress installation location
<———-
AllowOverride All

This allows the .htaccess file to define its own url rewrite rules. If this isn’t there, then the .htaccess file is essentially dead. Changing the permalink configuration will have no effect.

Most of the time, the advice given in this post will fix the problem. But there is that occasional edge case where it won’t and it is likely the http configuration that is the culprit.