kapowaz

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/ 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.