In my site design I have eliminated the need for pages whatsoever, is it possible to re-write the main code somehow so that the "/category/" that we're talking about is not used? I have no pages whatsoever so there's nothing to get messed up?
How to remove the "category" folder (48 posts)
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winpoka
Posted 6 years ago # -
remivisser
Posted 5 years ago #I fixed this one by a one line 'hack' in
wp-includes/template-functions-category.phpOn line 35;
// revhack, 9-9-2006 0:34, remove /category
$catlink = preg_replace( '/\/category/', '', $catlink, 1);
Works like a charm as you can see on http://tekstack.remidain.com
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Posted 5 years ago #it's late, should be tekstack.remidian.com
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trevorturk
Posted 5 years ago #remivisser, or anybody else - does this solution cause a problem? I want to try and figure out a way around this without hacking the core, but I'm worried that other people in this thread seem to think this would break some functionality...? I don't know why you would need to have a prefix for categories - but maybe I'm craaazy!??! :)
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Posted 5 years ago #I guess another solution would be to make Pages that emulate the category pages...
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ia
Posted 5 years ago #I fixed this one by a one line 'hack' in wp-includes/template-functions-category.php
On line 35;
Didn't work for me, am using 2.0.4 and what happens is that it isn't able to display page 2 (categoryname/page/2 vs category/categoryname/page/2). Sorry guys, I agree with the uselessness of the 'category' label, at least for my own purposes. I guess Pages can be distinguished by presentation/layout anyway. =(
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samokhov
Posted 5 years ago #trevorturk, pages emulating categories don't exactly cut it. you can change navigation links, but the category links in the posts will still point to /category/something/
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Ajd777
Posted 5 years ago #No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./
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jcontonio
Posted 5 years ago #No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./
This doesn't work for me. It makes the urls without "category" but hitting a link say blah.com/categoryname just gives me what blah.com would give me...all the categories.
This really should be treated. With so many requests and such a useful request, I can't believe it hasn't already.
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Though I have to say for me, the word *category* actually saved my site from getting all messy and I was thankful I had it.
Reason being...
I am working on moving an "Awards" category to an "Awards" Set of pages.
so.. for example, now I have my links so the category is
http://www.aleeya.net/category/awards/award nameand the pages are going in
http://www.aleeya.net/awards/award nameso, if I did not have "category" in there, you can only imagine the problems I would have with 60+ pages getting mixed up with permalinks of posts if the word "category" was not in there.
I have a couple other "categories" that I am having to do this with too.. so that *Could* get messy.
Another reason that I am glad it distinguishes the two with the name *category*.. saves me from having a HUGE mess.
then again, I always have been an oddball..
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Posted 5 years ago #No hacks are needed to do this. Just set your category base to ./
It works for the most part, but not for paged category archives. It returns a 404 error. Any other ideas? :D
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Posted 5 years ago #This does not work for me at all. I put in ./ and it changes automatically to /.
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andymike
Posted 5 years ago #One thing that works for me is this:
Leave the category base alone.
When you are linking to the category in your navigation just make the link:
mysite.com/mycategoryinstead of
mysite.com/category/mycategoryThe category still works fine and displays how you want it. The only problem would be if you had a page with the same name as your category. If not I can't find any conflicts.
Obviously doesn't work if you are using a template tag to display the links to your categories.
Let me know if you find any conflicts with this method.
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lunarca
Posted 5 years ago #It doesn't work for me :( I don't get the same results when I write
http://www.rodadas.net/blog/category/blog/citas/
than when I go
http://www.rodadas.net/blog/blog/citas/
Any other ideas?
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Posted 5 years ago #I found this on 'a href="http://www.clausheinrich.com/seo/change-or-remove-the-category-from-your-permalinks-on-a-wordpress-blog-34.html"'Claus Heinrich Personal Weblog'/a'
'blockquote'Find the file wp-includes/classes.php and about halfway down you can change the settings.
To remove the category like above do this:$this->category_structure = $this->front . ‘category/’;
change it into this:
$this->category_structure = $this->front;
'/blockquote'But in order for it to work, you MUST have the Apache's mod_rewrite module on. To do this, just write 'blockquote'RewriteEngine on'/blockquote' on your .htcaccess file
Note that it will only work if you have the mod_rewrite module installed
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jazbek
Posted 5 years ago #Wow, ok, that worked for me. I read somewhere else about someone doing the exact same thing, and it broke their post permalinks. Maybe they didn't have mod_rewrite on.
Thanks for the solution!!
FYI, the line to edit is line 1091 of classes.php on a default install (ver 2.0.6).
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Posted 5 years ago #I take it back. It was screwing up my permalinks to posts -- though only intermittently. I think maybe when the rewrite rules were cached with versions before I commented out that code.
Anyway, it doesn't work. I'm just going to create Pages that emulate category listings.
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adammoro
Posted 5 years ago #I noticed a duplicate content issue on my blog where domain.com/category/categoryname/ displays the same content as domain.com/categoryname/. In this particular case there are definite SEO implications as someone could simply link to both URLs enabling the engines to find them both.
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