Same Post Name – Diff Category: Not Working

  • I’m not sure but for some reason or another I can’t get this to work.

    Here is an example of what i am TRYING to do:

    Tmobile
    -about
    -phones
    -plans

    Sprint
    -about
    -phones
    -plans

    but when i try to do the sprint/about – it will come up sprint/about-2

    It’s a different category and the ‘about’ is a post name. Do I need to just create “pages” or is there a work around for this?

    Thanks!

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  • Categories, even sub-categories (category with parent), must be unique.

    Thread Starter drivenmg

    (@drivenmg)

    these aren’t sub-categories. These are pages (post) w/in unique categories.

    domain.com/category1/about

    domain.com/category2/about

    make sense?

    no

    Thread Starter drivenmg

    (@drivenmg)

    lol i’m using unique url’s for the permalinks so once again:

    domain.com/category1/about
    domain.com/category1/sales

    vs

    domain.com/category2/about
    domain.com/category2/sales

    to go a step further

    domain.com/category1/subcategory1/about
    domain.com/category1/subcategory1/sales

    vs

    domain.com/category2/subcategory2/about
    domain.com/category2/subcategory2/sales

    in BOTH “/about” and “/sales” are POST – they are “about” that particular category and UNDER that particular category.

    does that help?

    Okay got it.

    You may need to resort to using %post_id in your Permalinks to make each unique.

    As a note, some developers would recommend against using category based Permalinks, for performance reasons.

    Thread Starter drivenmg

    (@drivenmg)

    I’ll try it out. THANKS!

    On the 2nd part re: developers – how does it affect performance?

    btw thanks for all your help!

    how does it affect performance?

    Retards performance as it has to check database for rewrite rules. See this thread on the wp-testers email list: https://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2009-January/011097.html Quoting from Ryan Boren on that thread:
    “Verbose rules are used for structures beginning with %category%,
    %tag%, %postname%, and %author%. Avoiding such structures is best.
    ”

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