WP didn't redirect to canonical category URL

I have a problem with canonical redirect.

mydomain.com/mycat is the correct category URL but the following URL works too: - mydomain.com/asdfa/mycat - mydomain.com/1234/mycat - mydomain.com/anythingyouwant/mycat

And all these URLs show the category mycat... The canonical is mydomain.com/mycat and now Google give results with bad URLs.

Can you please help me because I didn't understand why.

I have the same template on other website and when we try to go to mydomain.com/asdfa/mycat, WP redirect to the canonical URL mydomain.com/mycat

Topic rel-canonical wp-redirect categories redirect themes Wordpress

Category Web

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Maybe this answer about canonical urls can help you. It won't tell you how to do the redirects, but it will solve the Google search engine problem.

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Check error logs - probably PHP sent some content to browser before WordPress tried redirection (and failed because headers was already sent).

Check if you don't have any ?> on the end of config, theme and plugins files, and ofc check if deactivating plugins and temporary changing theme to one of Twentys help, it could help you target problematic part.

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