Title: Creating a custom URL
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Creating a custom URL

 *  Resolved [John Romaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-romaine/)
 * (@john-romaine)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-url/)
 * Hi everyone,
    One of our web guys has created a custom main navigational link
   on our site, and instead of it looking like this…
 * [http://www.worksmedia.com.au/category/case-studies/](http://www.worksmedia.com.au/category/case-studies/)
 * We would like to change /category/ to something of actual use, like /seo/ or /
   testimonials/ or something of that nature.
 * If I go about changing the /category/ permalink structure, won’t this apply site
   wide, instead of just at one given URL?
 * Cheers,
    John

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 *  [Matt Knowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aestheticdesign/)
 * (@aestheticdesign)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-url/#post-5700496)
 * Try this plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-custom-permalinks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-custom-permalinks/)
 *  [Brian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/briansteeleca/)
 * (@briansteeleca)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-url/#post-5700497)
 * Here’s one possible solution: a plugin called Remove Category URL.
 * It will turn this:
    [http://www.example.com/category/case-studies/](http://www.example.com/category/case-studies/)
 * into this:
    [http://www.example.com/case-studies/](http://www.example.com/case-studies/)
 * Create a category called SEO, and another called Case Studies with SEO as its
   parent.
 * If you post under the SEO category, the URL will be:
    [http://www.example.com/seo/](http://www.example.com/seo/)
 * If you post under the SEO/Case Study category, the URL will be:
    [http://www.example.com/seo/case-studies/](http://www.example.com/seo/case-studies/)
 * Categories must have unique names, so if you want a Case Studies category under
   two different categories, you would have to do this:
    [http://www.example.com/seo/seo-case-studies/](http://www.example.com/seo/seo-case-studies/)
   [http://www.example.com/design/design-case-studies/](http://www.example.com/design/design-case-studies/)
 * I’ve never used this plugin myself so I can’t vouch for it, but I did a test 
   and it seemed to work as advertised. I did noticed that if you deactivate the
   plugin, you’ll have to go into Settings > Permalinks and click Save, otherwise
   all your pages will 404.
 * And of course it’s always wise to back up your site before making any changes.
 *  Thread Starter [John Romaine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john-romaine/)
 * (@john-romaine)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-url/#post-5700521)
 * Awesome thanks guys! I’ll have a look at these.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-a-custom-url/#post-5700521)
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