Categories and taxonomy problem

You can set your permalink structure for posts to be the post title, and the category base to be anything. I like to use the word “list”, but you can also use a plugin to remove the category base from the permalink structure. You have to be careful, though, that you don’t have ambiguous links.
With that structure, a link like https://localhost/list/parent-category/child-category-03/grandchild-category/ will show the list of posts in that grandchild category. Each of those has its own address like https://localhost/post-has-many-categories/ which has no indication of what category its in. But that info is typically on the page so it doesn’t have to be in the address. Or use the date.

Your menu will likely show the hierarchy. The URLs don’t have to. In fact, it’s best if the URLs don’t depend on the content, because you could rearrange and delete and restructure, and your URLs are intact.

Hello Joy

Thank you for your reply.

We have been looking at custom post types as they seem more organised. However, we would prefer to use friendly URL’s that follows a hierarchy, so it is important that we get around WordPress’ default behaviour of only allowing unique slugs.

In our case any child/granchild categories with the same name shouldn’t be a problem if the parent category which will be unique is prefixed to utilise the full hierarcky in the URL, as shown below.

https://domain.com/entertainment/gaming/~/post-name
https://domain.com/guides/gaming/~/post-name
https://domain.com/petitions/gaming/~/post-name
https://domain.com/reviews-and-product-demonstations/gaming/~/post-name

The way we would like the URL structure to work is to have an archive page for each level of the hierarcky. Once a post has been categorised as far down as possible in the hierarky the URL will finish with the post name.

Thanks

Thomas

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