Title: URL: /�tegory%/%postname%/
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# URL: /�tegory%/%postname%/

 *  Salathe
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/)
 * Is it possible to use the Permalink structure posted at this topic title?
    ie:
   BLOG_ROOT/%category%/%postname%/ I’ve tried the %category% tag and it doesn’t
   work!

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 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117420)
 * The way that *I* post my blog entries, it *is* unique. That fact, and the other
   fact that it is a very intuitive url structure is why I want this to be used 
   on my blog.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117421)
 * It’s possible, but the second that you post something with the same title in 
   the same category, the entire site goes to hell. Stick with something like, /
   archives/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117423)
 * You’re not listening to me. Things will never have the same %postname% in a given
   category. If they do have the same title, I’ll be adding in a post-slug. Even
   if I dont (or repeat a title/slug) then both (or however many) posts show just
   like a mini category listing.
    I just want to know how to get a %category% tag
   in my Permalink to work. Not if it is possible, not other solutions… this one.
   🙂
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117424)
 * Oh, we’re listening, we’ve just never tried it. And, we’re just explaining why
   we’ve never tried it. /%category%/ doesn’t work, because it’s not an available
   permalink tag. Read your permalink options page carefully, starting at “The following
   â€œtagsâ€? are available:”.
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117426)
 * I’ve tried it, and it does work (look at the tags it gives you on the permalink
   page, it’s all there). BUT… then the archives link don’t work. So it’s give and
   take. Depends on how badly you want it to work.
    Beel – While you do have a valid
   point, I’d like to have some flexibility. Does any know if the following will
   be possible? I’d like my permalinks to the articles themselves to be: mysite-
   root/post/post-slug-title/post_id And date archives to be: mysite-root/archive/
   year/month/day And category listings to be: mysite-root/tomes/category-name Maybe
   optionaly add the year/month/day to the category to filter those as well. Tg
 *  Thread Starter Anonymous
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117427)
 * If it was already an available tag, I would be using it! Silly! I’d just like
   to know how to make it available.
 *  [Nola1974](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nolageek/)
 * (@nolageek)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117431)
 * I just want to get rid of the word “category” out of my url, and I dont want 
   to replace it with something. 🙂
 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [21 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117432)
 * nolageek – that ain’t gonna happpen. It’s been tried before w/o much success.
   The “category” bit needs to be there (or some other denoter) to indicate you 
   are following a category link. Other wise it won’t know.
    Beel – Nah, just the
   sun, the moon, AND the stars. If I’ve included the post ID in the permalink I
   should never have any collisions of any kind -if I do then there’s something 
   REALLY wrong in the database. And if I happen to have two posts with the same
   name, and I don’t put the post id in the url, then display both (not unlike displaying
   the posts for a particular day), then clicking the title would bring me to the
   full psot & full permalink. I won’t say that I’ll never have two posts by the
   same name, but 90% of the time I’ll have unique titles. Salathe – mea culpa –
   I thought it was there, I’d swear I’d tried it before. I think the reason it 
   isn’t available as a tag, is because of multi-categories. I realize that in your
   case it posts will always be only in one category, so it doesn’t matter, but 
   it’s the way it is. I don’t know if anything can be done about that. Tg
 *  [kapowaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapowaz/)
 * (@kapowaz)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117926)
 * I just stumbled across this thread because I’m trying to do the same; use a mod_rewrite
   rule to redirect [http://server.com/categoryname/subcategoryname/](http://server.com/categoryname/subcategoryname/)
   to a listing of entries within a category. I appreciate that WordPress needs 
   _some_ sort of indicator that a given URL with an otherwise arbitrary set of 
   querystrings represents categories, but I dispute that this makes it impossible
   to do. If as a fallback immediately after checking that the first part of the
   querystring doesn’t represent (part of) a permalink to a specific article, before
   giving an unknown article error, a query could be fired off to see if it matches
   any existing category. If it does then the next part of the URL could be checked
   to see if _that_ matches any subcategories within that category. A third part
   could represent a given post within that subcategory (although there are obviously
   other ways of directly accessing a particular post via its shortname).
 * Seeing as nobody else has yet come up with a solution I may try a bit of inventive
   hacking around with my installation. I’ll post any successes here.
 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117943)
 * Have you had any success with the “categoryname/subcategoryname/posttitle/” hack
   yet?
 * I’d really love it.
 *  [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117966)
 * I’m hoping to get some clarification on this point too… Is it just plain impossible
   in WP v1.5 to duplicate the directory structure I had in MT?
 * I had category/postname… I posted the full question here:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=18304#post-144905](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=18304#post-144905)
 * …then realized it was about the ‘beta’ version. Bah.
 * I’m open to suggestions of hacks, if anyone has any?
 *  [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117970)
 * aleck made a tutorial on this subject.
 * 1. You need to hack wp-includes/classes.php to remove the word ‘category’
 * 2. You need to change the permalink structure in the wp admin area to /%category%/%
   postname%/
 * 3. You need to manually edit the .htaccess, because there is a bug aleck found
   in the way WP edits the .htaccess file.
 * All incredible amazing details here:
    [http://www.aplus.co.yu/it/this-blog-runs-wp-15-now/](http://www.aplus.co.yu/it/this-blog-runs-wp-15-now/)
 * THE ONLY BUMMER is that it apparently is not friendly with sub-categories… and
   the sub-category archives do not work- you get a Wp 404 error.
 *  [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-117971)
 * And another bummer is, if you’re using the page feature, you have to manually
   update your .htaccess each time. Bah!
 *  [sandwiches](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sandwiches/)
 * (@sandwiches)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-118012)
 * I really would like this functionality too… is it happening?
 *  [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [20 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-tegorypostname/#post-118013)
 * Not as far as I know, I have never been able to get it to work. I just accepted
   that my URL structure was not going to make too much sense.
 * so for permalink structure, i just did /%postname%/ and for category base i put
   in ‘portfolio’. not ideal, but at least my sub category pages work.

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