[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18734: Subcategory archive does work with any name as parent category in URL

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#18734: Subcategory archive does work with any name as parent category in URL
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 Reporter:  ocean90                              |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Future
                                                 |  Release
Component:  Canonical                            |     Version:  3.0.1
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch dev-feedback has-unit-     |     Focuses:
  tests                                          |
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Comment (by kasparsd):

 Thanks for testing @huzaifaalmesbah!

 I've refreshed the patch [https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-
 develop/pull/10854 as a pull request] and tested it locally. Everything
 appears to be working correctly -- here is a test setup with `subject` as
 category permalink prefix and `top` → `top-child` as hierarchical terms:


 {{{
 curl -v http://localhost:8889/subject/INVALID/top-child/
 * Host localhost:8889 was resolved.
 * IPv6: ::1
 * IPv4: 127.0.0.1
 *   Trying [::1]:8889...
 * Established connection to localhost (::1 port 8889) from ::1 port 65036
 * using HTTP/1.x
 > GET /subject/INVALID/top-child/ HTTP/1.1
 > Host: localhost:8889
 > User-Agent: curl/8.17.0
 > Accept: */*
 >
 * Request completely sent off
 < HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
 < Server: nginx/1.29.4
 < Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:28:57 GMT
 < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
 < Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 < Connection: keep-alive
 < X-Powered-By: PHP/8.2.29
 < X-Redirect-By: WordPress
 < Location: http://localhost:8889/subject/top/top-child/
 }}}


 I also confirmed that post permalinks with `%category%` fragments still
 redirect as expected.

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