Let’s see…
I would set up a custom permalink structure like this: /%category/%postname/
Then I would create categories of each department (ex: a category called “events department”) and have the posts categorized under each department. That should give you the URL you are looking to achieve.
As for the privileges, this plugin may help. If not, try searching the plugins directory.
Hope that helps!
Hi,
I think you can do it via MU wordpress and use multiple blogs for your requirement..
Thanks,
Shane G.
Thread Starter
nachof
(@nachof)
Yes, that helps a lot… especially the permalinks thing… it works perfectly…one more question though… is there anyway I could also change the structure for the categories link???
instead of
http://www.mysite.com/category/some-category
I would like just
http://www.mysite.com/some-category
I have noticed that if I manually change the url to go to
http://www.mysite.com/some-category
it shows the exact same page as the other one but the automatic links are always created with the first format… should I look for a way to change this manually in my theme code?
Are you referring to sub-categories?
Thread Starter
nachof
(@nachof)
No, just regular categories… let me give you an example…
right now I have the ‘communications’ category
I want the link to the archive for ‘communications’ to be
http://www.myschoolsite.com/communications/
Instead, right now the link is
http://www.myschoolsite.com/category/communications/
Pointing you to this ‘info’ in Using_Permalinks
For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs (which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start your permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID. See wp-testers discussion of this topic.
Hello NachoF,
Can you post the real link to your site? I would like to see how it works as I need to do something similar.
Ed587
