Title: Categorizing posts changes URL – management ideas?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Categorizing posts changes URL – management ideas?

 *  Resolved [uppaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uppaway/)
 * (@uppaway)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-posts-change-url/)
 * I looked for answers on the forums, so plz direct me if this was already answered?
   Thanks.
 * Is there a way to manage which parent category shows up in the URL if there are
   a # of categories for a specific post?
 * For instance, I add categorize a post as “family” and “holidays” (both parent
   categories) and when I save it, the “family” shows up as the parent category 
   in the URL like so: mysite.com/family/postname — when I’d like it to be mysite.
   com/holidays/postname
 * Also, if I categorize a post and later change it, I see the URL changes based
   on the new category. Does this mean the “old” link is broken? If this is the 
   case, the above question is so important, as I’d like to add more categories 
   to the same post at a later time, but if this breaks the URL, this would prevent
   me from doing so.
 * Any help is appreciated.

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 *  [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/)
 * (@iridiax)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-posts-change-url/#post-868426)
 * The lowest ID category gets used for the URL. If you will be regularly adding
   or changing categories for your posts, then using category in your permalink 
   structure is not a good idea because URL changes will break any incoming links
   to your posts.
 *  Thread Starter [uppaway](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uppaway/)
 * (@uppaway)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categorizing-posts-change-url/#post-868479)
 * VERY good to know. thank you [@iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/).

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