Changing Directory Structure

  • Is there a way of prefixing blog posts with a custom directory structure so that, for example, an article relating to cakes would be permalinked with:

    ‘https://example.com/cakes/gateau’

    I know if you set a category with a post, you can set the permalinks to display the category before the blog post name but what if a blog post has more than one category attached to it?

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  • Hi there titan21!

    Check out this article in the Codex regarding Taxonomies. Categories are an example of a taxonomy, but there are others. The Custom Taxonomies might help you (although I wouldn’t recommend the plugin referenced).

    Thread Starter titan21

    (@titan21)

    Perfect! Thank you.

    I also found this article which gave me a bit more info on using the new taxonomy in permalinks.

    I’m kinda thinking that I don’t really need the in-built category functionality so I’ll look at making that unavailable at some point.

    One issue I have come across however. I was using the category cake previously as in my example above. But when I define something as “cake” with my new taxonomy, my permalinks use “cake-2”. I even tried deleting the category “cake” to see if that would fix things but no joy. Is there a way to “flush” the categories so this doesn’t happen and also, why would one taxonomy have a bearing on another taxonomy?

    Hi!

    Is there a previous post that used that category “cake” as a slug that you might have deleted? If it’s still in the Trash, that might be the cause. If that is the case, try deleting the trash permanently.

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