Assigning Multiple Categories

  • trumanhedding

    (@trumanhedding)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    Quick question about assigning multiple categories to a post.

    From the wordpress site it says that if you use multiple categories for a post then it will be assigned to the “lowest numbered category.”

    Doesn’t this create a problem as you continue to add more post to each topic? Does this mean that it will be defaulted to the category with the least amount of posts? Is there a way to set a “master” category to each post?

    I know that the post will show up under each category that I assign but I would like more control over which category is the parent.

    Thanks,

    Truman

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Seemingly you misunderstood something…
    The posts ARE assigned to the category or categories as you choose it when writing or editing.

    The sentence you were quoting refers ONLY to permalinks – and ONLY to the case when %category% is used in the permalinks structure.
    As for parent and children relationship for categories you have full control!

    So what is your question?

    Thread Starter trumanhedding

    (@trumanhedding)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    1st of all, thanks for helping me out!

    I think I should clarify…I should have said I want more control over my permalinks.

    I am going to use widgets as an example…

    I write a post about homemade charms and I want the post to show up in the categories:

    homemade charms
    charm ideas
    adult charms

    My question is how to I control that the post uses the permalink: site/homemade/post-name and not in site/charm-ideas/post-name ?

    Note – I want each category to be by itself and not under a parent category.

    Did I ask the question right this time or am I still shooting blanks?

    Thanks in advance for your time!

    T

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    My question is how to I control that the post uses the permalink:[…]

    I see. I am afraid you do NOT control it; I mean you can not because WP will go (as you’ve read in the Codex) by the lowest cat ID.
    In your case I wouldn’t use the %category% in the permalinks.

    Thread Starter trumanhedding

    (@trumanhedding)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    interesting…What is another way around this?

    I’d like to take advantage of a hierarchy that makes sense.

    What permalink structure would you recommend?

    Thanks for your help!

    arcater

    (@arcater)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Why not leave the category out and just use the post name? /%postname%

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