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# liminalwp

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to remove the “category” folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/)
 *  [liminalwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liminalwp/)
 * (@liminalwp)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/page/2/#post-246092)
 * Ah, I have been enlightened! I see that I (and I think perhaps one or two others)
   have been confusing two issues which sound similar when described. Based upon
   moshu’s clarificiation, I would say that what I would like is the option to not
   have the parent page be part of the permalink for a child page. I shall move 
   this notion somewhere else. Thanks for clearing this up for me!
 * EDIT:
    I have posted the removing parent page from child page permalink topic
   here, for any who are interested. [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/69755](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/69755)
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to remove the “category” folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/)
 *  [liminalwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liminalwp/)
 * (@liminalwp)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/page/2/#post-246084)
 * “WP treats them like separate entities because they are – I’d be keen to bet 
   that if it didn’t do that, the site would malfunction somehow.”
 * Yes and no. Both pages and posts are all stored in wp_posts. The only difference
   between them from a storage perspective is post_status; pages get “static” and
   posts get “publish”. Additionally, if a page is a sub-page then it gets a post_parent
   of the parent id (posts get “0”). So it’s really up to the WP code how it decides
   to treat them.
 * I would think a hack could be made to change this behavior without great difficulty,
   but I’ve not chased down the permalink code yet (most of my time is going to 
   trying to finish graduating, 24 days to go!).
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to remove the “category” folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/)
 *  [liminalwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liminalwp/)
 * (@liminalwp)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/page/2/#post-246082)
 * I’m not sure if this is useful, but I just noticed that I’m only having this 
   problem with my pages and not my posts. For example, the post with my gripe about
   this problem is found here:
 * [http://ongoingprocess.net/wordpress-woes/](http://ongoingprocess.net/wordpress-woes/)
 * Note the lack of category, which would be “Geek”.
 * However, my Netflix widget page, which is filed under the sub-page “Projects”,
   is found here:
 * [http://ongoingprocess.net/projects/netflixwidget/](http://ongoingprocess.net/projects/netflixwidget/)
 * For this, the category is in there and I can’t find a way to shake it.
 * Perhaps there’s some way to get WP to treat pages like posts for the purposes
   of permalink generation?
 * (Running 2.0.2, btw)
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to remove the “category” folder](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/)
 *  [liminalwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liminalwp/)
 * (@liminalwp)
 * [20 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-category-folder/#post-246076)
 * I also would dearly love to remove “category” from my permalinks. Does anyone
   know where in the WP code the permalink is generated? I’d be willing to take 
   a stab at hacking a temporary solution.

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