Title: Categories?? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Categories?? * [nachof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nachof/) * (@nachof) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/) * How would you get this done?? Im doing this site for my schools students council The council is divided in different departments (ex. events department, culture department, comunications department, etc).. I want my posts links to be like this, for instance [http://www.myschoolscouncil.com/comunications-department/some-post-they-make](http://www.myschoolscouncil.com/comunications-department/some-post-they-make) * I also want to give them, and only them the privilege to post a post related to that department… so Im planing on just giving them one login for each department, restricting them from posting something thats related to another department…. how would I get this done?? I thought category would be the way but there doesnt seem to be a way to restrict which category each user can post on… help please. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [msdana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msdana/) * (@msdana) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112466) * 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](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/) may help. If not, try searching the plugins directory. * Hope that helps! * [shane-g](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shane-g/) * (@shane-g) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112467) * Hi, * I think you can do it via MU wordpress and use multiple blogs for your requirement.. * Thanks, * Shane G. * Thread Starter [nachof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nachof/) * (@nachof) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112471) * 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](http://www.mysite.com/category/some-category) I would like just [http://www.mysite.com/some-category](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](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? * [msdana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msdana/) * (@msdana) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112476) * Are you referring to sub-categories? * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112479) * If my notes are right, these plugins can control category and user ‘relations’: * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/) [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-cats-manager/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-cats-manager/) [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-access-control/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-access-control/) [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bind-user-to-cat/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bind-user-to-cat/) * Related: [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/restrict](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/restrict) [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/restriction](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/restriction) * Thread Starter [nachof](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nachof/) * (@nachof) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112480) * 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/](http://www.myschoolsite.com/communications/) * Instead, right now the link is [http://www.myschoolsite.com/category/communications/](http://www.myschoolsite.com/category/communications/) * [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/) * (@michaelh) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112484) * Pointing you to this ‘info’ in [Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/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](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2009-January/011097.html). * [ed587](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ed587/) * (@ed587) * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112645) * 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 Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Categories??’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [ed587](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ed587/) * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-34/#post-1112645) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics