Changing categories in permalinks

All your links should change dynamically. For example if you have a category called general and then a sub category called something and you write a post called hello then the slug would be:

https://yourdomain.com/general/something/hello

If you decided to rename your general category to sport then WordPress will automatically change the permalink/slug of all posts so the example above would change to:

https://yourdomain.com/sport/something/hello

Hope this helps – sorry if I have misunderstood.

O.K. Just to verify-
If I change my post called Grateful for Gun Play in the child perspective category:

https://www.childperspective.com/child-perspective/grateful-for-gun-play/

to the category discipline, reading:

https://www.childperspective.com/discipline/grateful-for-gun-play

then WordPress will automatically change the permalink, so that all links to the first – https://www.childperspective.com/child-perspective/grateful-for-gun-play/
would actually lead to the right place, the new category:
https://www.childperspective.com/discipline/grateful-for-gun-play.

Wish I had a better way to explain this, but am just verifying that we are essentially saying the same thing.

Emily