Replacing default category pages

  • Hello! This probably has been asked before but I’ve searched and can only find contradicting information or some that seems too complicated for what I want to do.

    Basically, I do not want to use the category archives. I created pages for Some of the categories, not all, and I would prefer to use these pages where possible instead of the default. They wouldn’t necessarily display all posts like the default category pages. If required, I can create a page for each category.

    I would also like to change the link structure so that clicking on breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to www.example.com/category/cooking but simply to www.example.com/cooking, the page I made and want to replace the archive with.

    Appreciate any help provided, new to WordPress here ??

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by dereckbp.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • The way that taxonomies are structured is kind of baked in to WordPress. It’s not just the category page itself, but the many places that could link to that, like in menus and the post meta (listing links to the terms in the taxonomies) and widgets..
    You can code a filter and change the rewrite rules, but it’s limiting.
    Years ago, there was a simple plugin that removed the category base (a lot of people wanted that, I guess). It worked, but it made the category URL look like a page URL, which is different from what you are wanting. You want your page URL to be the category and not ever have the category URL’s functionality.

    Thread Starter dereckbp

    (@dereckbp)

    Thank you Joy for your reply, that is indeed the feeling I got.

    Anybody else has an idea?

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