I’m creating a new site, which is a miscellany, and the idea is to divide the format into continents. Which was perfect, until I discovered an issue with Asia. No matter what I did, the URL slug would force itself to _asia I couldn’t get the pure: categories/asia it would always correct to categories/_asia Which, on balance of probabilities, means it’s a “reserved word,” within Wix’s own internal coding system, for (possibly) language-based or geo settings etc. And it makes you wonder how much thought they put into this decision internally. Because surely they must have anticipated people would want to use the word Asia? After all, there was no problem with Africa or Europe etc. Has anyone else encountered anything like this? For me, one of the world’s biggest building platforms, this seems a pretty fundamental thing. I mean even if they’d used something like: asia_internal It’s a minor thing, but in terms of having the “pure” URL slugs for each section seems like a fundamental thing to expect.

I was able to replicate this and I reached out to team for further clarification. Thanks for bringing this up. As a workaround, I created a 301 redirect and it navigates users to the correct page if you did want to share the category. [image]

Came Across A Crazy "Reserved URL Slug" Issue

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Rob September 19, 2025, 2:45pm 3

@James_Leatherbarrow I heard back from the team and they suggest reporting this issue so they can take a closer look.

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Came Across A Crazy "Reserved URL Slug" Issue

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