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1. Marventus
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hello everyone! I am experiencing a problem with the way WP is handling the %category% tag inside the Permalink structure, and I think this problem might exceed my own installation.

   I have the following custom Permalink structure on my site:
   

   /%category%/%postname%/

   According to the Permalink documentation:

   %category%:
   A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.

   However, subcategories are not being included in the URIs. Here is an example: The post is listed under parent cat "Derecho y" ("Law and" in EN) and subcat "Cultura" ("Culture" in EN), but it's permalink structure remains:
   

   [site-root]/[category]/[postname]

   Instead of:
   

   [site-root]/[category]/[subcategory]/[postname]

   I have found the following old threads about this issue:

   • Thread 1.
   • Thread 2.

   I made sure that parent category ID numbers are lower than its children's, reset my theme to TwentyEleven, and deactivated all plugins except for Exec-PHP, Role Manager, and Akismet with no results.
   I am using WP 3.3.1 and PHP 5.2.17.

   Any thoughts?

2. jfrancofarias
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   Hi Marventus,

   The solution is having the parent category ID greater than any of the child ones.

   e.g.

   to show this permalink: http://www.domain.com/parentcat/subcat/post

   Your cat ids should be something like this...

   http://www.domain.com/100/<100/post
   http://www.domain.com/10/2/post, etc.

   How to change your cat ids?

   Here's an article: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-category-ids-in-wordpress-27?replies=7

3. Marventus
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   The solution is having the parent category ID greater than any of the child ones.

   Thanks for the heads up! I was absolutely 100% convinced that it was the other way around. As the Germans would say, "Scheiße...", ;-)
   I'll try it the other way around and let you know.
   Thanks!

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