Remove wpbdm_category’ from slug

Hi @therashidhassan,

Sorry that you ran into issues here!

You can’t remove that, but you can rename it under Directory Admin->Manage Options, General. That’s how WP allows us to filter things of that taxonomy, so we must have it available but it doesn’t have to be named that.

I would not use “category” as that is already reserved by WP itself.

Try that and let me know if you run into more issues.

Hello @businessdirectoryplugin,
Can you explain how to make my current slug which is https://www.ratebusiness.website/business-directory/wpbdm_category/education to https://www.ratebusiness.website/business-directory/category/education or https://www.ratebusiness.website/business-directory/education or something better. What exact term can be used in Directory Admin->Manage Options, General. Help will be highly appreciated!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by therashidhassan.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by therashidhassan.

Hi @therashidhassan,

Sorry for any confusion.

From what I understand, you have 2 additional forms of the URL that you’re looking to do:

https://www.ratebusiness.website/business-directory/category/education and https://www.ratebusiness.website/business-directory/education

Neither of these are possible with BDP, unfortunately. “/category” is a RESERVED slug by WordPress so you aren’t allowed to use that for a taxonomy path (which is what this is, defined by WP)

The second one has no identifying “this is a category” part of the slug that tells a custom post type in WP (which BDP is one), “what follows this part of the URL should be treated as a category”

This is why we use “wpbdm_category” as our “this is a category marker”. You can change this to something else as long as:
– It’s not empty
– It’s not the word “category”

Anything else is valid. You could change wpbdm_category -> cat or group or bob. But it must be in the URL and it cannot be “category”.

In case you are wondering, these are limits placed on us by WordPress. We have no control over them as a custom post type–they must be followed if you want the URL to work as a category filter.

Does that make more sense now?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by Business Directory Plugin.

Thanks a lot @businessdirectoryplugin ! Really appreciate your gesture towards clearing all doubts. Very supportive indeed!