Posted 1 year ago #
Hi. In my theme, the category links show up as:
http://domain.com/wp/category/mycat
For backward compatibility of URLs, I would like to remove the bold word in that URL ("/category") because wordpress in fact works if I remove that. Just the name of the category ("mycat" in my example) is fine to bring up the category archive without any problem.
Thanks for any tips!
use a rewrite
Posted 1 year ago #
I think it's not an issue of doing a rewrite, because the theme itself writes the URLs. I want to change how the category URL is linked from within the theme while calling wp_list_categories.
So the "/category" is autmatically added by WP!
I checked the options for this function:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories
But there seems to be none that allows me to personalize the word used for "category".
You can change the word to anything you like on the Options->Permalink page, but you cannot remove it. The identifier is needed to signal that you are asking for a category.
As for why it works without it, let me guess: Your Custom Permalink string starts with /%category% , right? If it didn't, then leaving it out would not work.
Removing it entirely would require a large rewrite of the internal rewrite and query system. Using category in the custom permalinks is a bit of a hack anyway, since there is not a one-to-one correspondence between categories and posts; posts can have more than one category.
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks for a very informative post!
I found the "category base" works for me.
Posted 1 year ago #
I have a site that automatically lists the categories prefixed with "domain-name/category/directory-name".
If you create a navigation menu and simply hard-code "domain-name/directory-name", I've discovered that it works just the same; The hard-coded urls also get indexed like every other page on your website or blog.
- I've used this technique on my sites that I want to ensure the url and directory can easily be memorized.
However, in most cases, if you dont have a SEO keyword in your domain name, I recommend using the "category" structure and replace that with an industry keyword.
Posted 1 year ago #
Using "/." (without quotes) as the category base should work
Posted 1 year ago #
Hmm... it did work, but not anymore.
Seems not to work all the time, anyone know why?
Posted 1 year ago #
Use the top level categories plugin, if you want to remove the prefix altogether.
Posted 10 months ago #
Alfa code
Important! Not for live website use unless you know what you are doing. For development use until testing has been completed and reviewed by a community of peers. If implemented (incorrectly) it can cause site errors. Use at your own risk.
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
RewriteRule category_base/(.*) http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,NC,L]
</IfModule>Ran into the similar problem of wanting the category base word out of the url.
Am testing the code above in the latest stable version of 2.7. 'category_base' is the category base name from the permalinks settings menu.
Haven't run into any problems with it, but haven't tested it extensively enough to say without a shadow of a doubt it will work all the time and safely. So far the urls of the site that I have tested index.php, categories, single pages as well as comments appear to work.
In the permalink settings in the settings menu the 'custom structure' is selected and set to:
/%category%/%postname%.html
Posted 9 months ago #
I will put "." (dot) as a category base, and it's will nice shown now as /./category/. But, is there any chance to remove this dot? Without .htaccess. May be there are some hidden features in WP?
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