Title: multiple categories/permalink/taxonomies?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# multiple categories/permalink/taxonomies?

 *  [jonathanm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanm/)
 * (@jonathanm)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categoriespermalinktaxonomies/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m looking at wordpress for the first time, and Have been looking for this answer
   for hours – I guess it’s an easy question for anyone with some experience, so
   I hope someone can help.
 * I want to use WP as a CMS, and I’m thinking about SEO.
 * Here is an example of what I want to do (not real). Can anyone point me in the
   right direction please?
 * [http://www.flights.com/from-miami/](http://www.flights.com/from-miami/)
    will
   show a page listing all routes from miami
 * [http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-chicago/](http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-chicago/)
   
   [http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-paris/](http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-paris/)
   [http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-london/](http://www.flights.com/from-miami/to-london/)
   will….well you get the idea 🙂
 * [http://www.flights.com/to-miami/](http://www.flights.com/to-miami/)
    would ideally
   show the same page as [http://www.flights.com/from-miami/](http://www.flights.com/from-miami/)
 * as the info is not unique enough to warrant a separate page.
 * And the same for:
 * [http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-chicago/](http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-chicago/)
   
   [http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-paris/](http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-paris/)
   [http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-london/](http://www.flights.com/to-miami/from-london/)
 * And then of course the same for:
 * [http://www.flights.com/to-chicago/from-miami/](http://www.flights.com/to-chicago/from-miami/)
   
   [http://www.flights.com/to-paris/from-miami/](http://www.flights.com/to-paris/from-miami/)
   [http://www.flights.com/to-london/from-miami/](http://www.flights.com/to-london/from-miami/)
 * And finally:
    [http://www.flights.com/from-chicago/to-miami/](http://www.flights.com/from-chicago/to-miami/)
   [http://www.flights.com/from-paris/to-miami/](http://www.flights.com/from-paris/to-miami/)
   [http://www.flights.com/from-london/to-miami/](http://www.flights.com/from-london/to-miami/)
 * Can I do this in WP?
 * Thanks for your help 🙂

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categoriespermalinktaxonomies/#post-693692)
 * I’m going to have to say ‘maybe’ here, as I’m not sure what I’ll suggest is what
   you’re asking for.
 * At present I don’t know of a way to allow for multiple name ‘slugs’ for any one
   category, but with the ability to assign multiple categories to a post you can
   set up categories like:
 * /to-miami/
    /from-miami/
 * and link relevant posts to both, or rather have child categories of:
 * /to-miami/from-chicago/
    /to-miami/from-paris/ /to-miami/from-london/
 * /from-miami/to-chicago/
    /from-miami/to-paris/ /from-miami/to-london/
 * and assign the appropriate children to a post. But this means you would be required
   to set up the various from/to categories and then all the related from/to child
   categories, which based on your example here could get pretty numerous.
 *  Thread Starter [jonathanm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathanm/)
 * (@jonathanm)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-categoriespermalinktaxonomies/#post-693733)
 * Hmmm, thanks, that’s food for thought, you’re right – it’s not perfect, but I
   think it could work like that.
 * I had been looking at using the pages instead of posts, but I think that’s a 
   dead end.
 * Doing it your way would mean I didn’t have lots of duplicate content, which would
   be great, but I would have a very complex category system.
 * So I would need a way to only display relevant categories based on where the 
   user was at any given time.
 * Thanks again 🙂
 * J
 * *scoots off to have another look at category plugins*

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