Customize Page Permalinks (different hierarchy than navigation)?

  • I attended a presentation about search engine optimization (not related to WordPress), and one of the tips recommended shortening URLs to leave out levels of the hierarchy. This presentation used Digg.com as an example. The navigation has “Technology” at the top level with “Apple” underneath. Yet the URL for Apple is not [digg.com/technology/apple] … it’s simply [digg.com/apple].

    I’m working on a fairly large WordPress-as-a-CMS web site (five hundred pages), and I have been able to accommodate every other requirement (with a few plugins) besides this one. Does anyone have any recommendations? A small chunck of the navigation looks like this, with the desired URLs on the right:

    - Publications             - /publications
- ---- Pub One             - /pub-one
- ---- Pub Two             - /pub-two
- ---- Pub Three           - /pub-three
- Conferences              - /conferences
- ---- Overview            - /conferences/overview
- ---- History             - /conferences/history
- ---- ---- 2007           - /conferences/2007
- ---- ---- 2008           - /conferences/2008

    I need to retain the parent from the left side for the navigation, but I think I need another parent for the permalink. I can easily add a custom field called “Permalink Parent” that stores the ID of this permalink parent, but I need a way to use that value in the rewrite rules.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks,
    ~randy

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  • I have a similar problem. I would like to know if is there any option to customize permalinks at category level (or, at least, at page level).

    Thanks,

    Xavi

    My problem is much more basic – I have a hyperlink to a site and the site is misspelled. I cannot work out where the hyperlink is to amend it. Has anybody else experienced and solved this one?

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