Title: Question about Permalink Structure
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Question about Permalink Structure

 *  Resolved [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permalink-structure-2/)
 * I’m pretty sure that you can’t have two separate permalink structures, right?(
   Like one way for Pages and Categories, and another for posts?)
 * I’m assuming that can’t be done.
 * So I was hoping someone could offer up an alternative suggestion for me. I know
   you *can* use `%postname%` in your permalink structure, but doing so opens up
   the possibility of issues if you name a Page, post, and/or category with the 
   same name.
 * However, I need for my URLs to look like so:
 * [http://www.sitename.com/about](http://www.sitename.com/about) (for the “About”
   Page)
 * [http://www.sitename.com/tools](http://www.sitename.com/tools) (for the “Tools”
   category)
 * [http://www.sitename.com/3/2007/this-is-an-archived-post](http://www.sitename.com/3/2007/this-is-an-archived-post)(
   for the posts)
 * Is there any way to accomplish such a thing? I guess I won’t say it’s *impossible*
   to do it via .htaccess, but I’m not familiar enough with it to manually code 
   my .htaccess files to specify the date-and-name-based for posts only, and just
   name-based for Pages and Categories. Is there an alternate way to accomplish 
   this, like a plugin?
 * If I knew what lines to edit in my .htaccess file, I’d give it a shot myself (
   in fact, I think I will!) but any input or suggestions anyone has would be appreciated.

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permalink-structure-2/#post-561594)
 * The only one you really need to duck is the category one, right? The other two
   you get with ye olde “Date and Name Based.”
 * I’ve seen some hacks around here to eliminate the “category” portion. I imagine
   they can work if you never, ever, ever have a page with the same slug as a cat
   name!
 *  Thread Starter [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permalink-structure-2/#post-561596)
 * LOL – thanks Handy.
 * I’ve come back, hoping to catch this *before* anyone posted. Chalk this one up
   to another “idiot post by Shelly” – turns out I *don’t* need this.
 * I was accidentally writing a **post** when I was *meaning* to write a **Page**.
   Big dork that I am, WP already does what I want (Pages have the /%postname% format
   by default). So I kept thinking that WP was formatting my Pages the same way 
   it did everything else. When I figured out what I was actually doing, it was 
   one of those “Holy crap, I’m an idiot.” moments.
 * DUH.
 * Sorry! Categories weren’t as much of a big deal as the Pages were, so since it
   already does it by default, then I guess I need to pay attention to what I’m 
   actually *doing* before wasting people’s time.
 * I’m going to drink more coffee now.
 * Thanks for the help though Handy! 🙂
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permalink-structure-2/#post-561597)
 * Lol. Coffee is brain juice. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-permalink-structure-2/#post-561597)
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