I just launched my first WordPress blog. I modified the .htaccess file to remove “wordpress” from the URL. So if I publish a post titled fun-day, it appears at mysite.com/fun-day (not mysite.com/wordpress/fun-day).
Now I’d like to set it up so that posts about places are placed in a category called “World” and displayed like this: mysite.com/world/post-about-japan
Similarly, posts about issues will display like this:
Can anyone tell me how to do this? In Dashboard > Settings I see options for Category base and Tag base. But it looks like I can only type in ONE category. How do I create special categories for “world” and “issues”? Or do I simply enter a generic term for Category base, then assign each post a category when I write that post?
I have NEVER seen this before… If Wordpress is installed in your root directory, then you shouldn’t be seeing Wordpress after your site URL. If it is installed in another folder named “Wordpress” then that’s understandable.
You might want to look into the “Permalink” settings to see if that resolves your issues and questions.
I think I figured it out. If I create a new post and assign it to a simple category, then it will be included in a list of articles I can see by clicking on the appropriate category in the sidebar. But it looks like it won’t let me change the URL structure for more than one category.
AFAIK you can not have different permalink structure for different categories.
That is, the site can have only one permalink structure
- but - if what is there built-in isn’t good enough, there looks to be some “custom permalinks” plugins in the WordPress repository that might work (I don’t know, I never tried any of them)
OK, I’ll have a look at that. Maybe I should rethink my strategy, too. I guess the most important thing is that I’m able to group things together in categories and manipulate them in different ways. Thanks.