Title: Custom taxonomy needed?
Last modified: September 10, 2017

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# Custom taxonomy needed?

 *  [antonio102](https://wordpress.org/support/users/antonio102/)
 * (@antonio102)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-needed/)
 * Hi! I’m currently developing a site which groups various categories of doctors.
   What i want to achieve is that permalink structure
 * site.com/dentist/dentist-province-x/doctor-name-surname
    site.com/dentist/dentist-
   province-y/doctor-name-surname site.com/dentist/dentist-province-z/doctor-name-
   surname
 * site.com/oculist/dentist-province-x/doctor-name-surname
    site.com/oculist/dentist-
   province-y/doctor-name-surname site.com/oculist/dentist-province-z/doctor-name-
   surname
 * and so on.
 * Now my question is: do i need to create a custom taxonomy for every single specialist(
   so dentist, oculist, orthopedic, etc.) or i just need to create a page sepcialist
   and then put the rest of the pages as children?

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-needed/#post-9483693)
 * You don’t _need_ to do anything. 🙂 Organize things in a way that makes sense
   to you. If the default permalinks are unsuitable, custom permalinks can be defined
   through add_rewrite_rule(). There is certainly no need for a separate taxonomy
   for every specialty unless that is what you want to do. They could all be top
   level terms for a single hierarchical taxonomy.
 * I think I see why you’re asking though. The taxonomy name normally should appear
   in the permalink. You could use a brief tag that’s not too obtrusive, like “md”,
   resulting in permalinks like _example.com/md/dentist/province/name/_.
 * It’s possible to add rewrite rules without the base “md” to get your desired 
   permalink, but without a base your links run the risk of getting mis-assigned
   because the only way to identify md (or whatever base) links is by the number
   of terms. Any other permalink with 3 terms could be assigned to the md taxonomy,
   resulting in no posts found if the request is not md related. Things are much
   more reliable when taxonomies have a base.
 * So yes, you could work around this by having a taxonomy for each specialty, but
   that seems cumbersome and inflexible. It’s much harder to add taxonomies than
   terms. You could add a rewrite rule for every specialty, all being rewritten 
   for the md taxonomy. They become aliases of a sort for the default md taxonomy
   base. I personally would settle for the “md” base in the links for the ease of
   adding specialties, but it’s up to you.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-taxonomy-needed/#post-9483693)
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