Title: Cleaning the permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Cleaning the permalinks

 *  Resolved [JusticeIsMade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justiceismade/)
 * (@justiceismade)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-the-permalinks/)
 * Hi, I’d appreciate some help with the following matter:
 * I have a website with thousands of articles, categories and subcategories. I’m
   currently using the following parameters for my permalinks: /%category%/%postname%
   and this way’s pretty cool but given the fact that I have subcategories some 
   articles end up with url-s such as:
 * [http://mywebsite/car-types/luxury-cars/ariticle_name](http://mywebsite/car-types/luxury-cars/ariticle_name)
 * Is there a way to bypass the category IF subcategory exists while generating 
   the permalinks? I know there is, it’s a simple if condition that tests subcategory
   for boolean 1 value but my current programming knowledge don’t allow me to find
   the answer alone.
 * I want to apply this condition only for posts that are posted in subcategories.
   For example, I will still have urls such as:
 * mywebsite/news/my_new_article but if the particular article is posted in a subcategory,
   only the subcategory will be displayed after root.
 * Thank you for your time!

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 *  Thread Starter [JusticeIsMade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justiceismade/)
 * (@justiceismade)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cleaning-the-permalinks/#post-2420512)
 * Sorry for not posting this in the Hacks subcategory, please delete it as I’ve
   created a new topic in Hacks. Thank you

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