Wordpress - show parent category and subcategory name in the URL of the subcategory archive

Question

I'm having problems with the urls in the Wordpress category/subcategory .

For example, I want to be able to display this archive:
http://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp/track-of-the-day by storing your parent category in the url, making it http://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wp/music/track-of-the-day

I used to get the message “This is inconvenient ...” 404 when accessing the URL /music/track-of-the-day (even if the one that appeared in the “View” option under the categories in the WP admin section).

Now the View link in the administration area shows me only the URL /track-of-the-day , and that means the category posts are great, but I want it to include the parent category in the URL.

Is there anything I can do for the functions.php file or any plugins I can add to make this happen? Keep in mind that this site has several archives of subcategories, and they must contain the parent category in the URL.

*** UPDATE: Actually, I just set everything up differently, using pages and showing categories of archives on pages, as it takes too much time. Thanks for your reply. People telling me to use %category%/%postname% as the permalink structure is incorrect - yes, this works for POST URLs, but not for the subcategory archive category, which is the problem I was really looking for help with. If someone can give an answer, it will be appreciated, but I am using this workaround now, as it has been trying to figure out too much time.

Answer 1

This is because when editing an entry you selected a category and a subcategory to the right of the checkmarks. Select only the subcategory field in each entry and it will display the sub URL.

Answer 2

For this to happen, you need to make some changes to permalinks.

go to Settings-> Permalinks , then select your own structure and use this syntax /% category% /% postname% / "in the field

Now save the settings and you can see the URL of the message using its category name in the permalink

Hope this helps :)

Answer 3

In fact, hierarchical subcategory files are always set by default in wordpress.

If you have a "good permalinks" structure selected in> permalinks settings, for example /%postname% , then the URLs of the category pages and subcategories should have a default value: yourdomain.com/category-base/category/sub-category/sub-sub-category

I ran into a similar issue with a recent WP project, BUT I used a plugin called WP No Base Permalink to get rid of my category and base slug tags in my permalinks. When I turned off the plugin, the category hierarchy suddenly returned to my permalinks in the archive (fortunately, this project was still under development, otherwise I would have 404 main problems).

I have not yet found / tested another plugin to eliminate the basic slug-systems of category / tags, which will also save the hierarchy in the URLs of the sub / category archive, but it turns out that I do not need this functionality for my current project.

Instead, I use the basic slugs blog-articles and blog-tags for standard categories and tags to establish blog taxonomies, among other taxonomies. Then I use the Types plugin to create a custom post type and custom taxonomies for this post type. The Types plugin has an option in the advanced settings for setting hierarchical taxonomic URLs true or false when creating a custom taxonomy.

Finally, I found a plugin called Remove Taxonomy Base Slug , which effectively excludes the default taxonomy term from the base pool of taxonomy archive URLs. And this, fortunately, does not interfere with the sub / category hierarchical attributes, or base bullets for standard tags and categories.

So my blog categories / tags are as follows:

yourdomain.com/blog-articles/category/sub-category/ or yourdomain.com/blog-tags/tag/

And my custom categories / message type tags look like this:

yourdomain.com/category/sub-category/ or yourdomain.com/tag/

Phew!

Hope this helps!

Answer 4

Settings settings-> Permalink-> Base category to "% category%" should provide you with what you want. According to WP document:

Sub-categories are displayed as sub-directories in the URI

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks .

Answer 5

Permalinks parameters should be like /% category% /% postname% / ..

Answer 6

If you use custom permalink options like% postname%, this will make your URL look like ... / category / subcategory.

Answer 7

You can use the WordPress plugin to remove a category from the URL http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-no-category-base/ and then follow the instructions given by Maruti

Answer 8

You must set the hierarchical value to true when you define your taxonomy.

'rewrite' => array('slug' => 'mySlug', 'hierarchical' => true),

Then, if you have a subcategory, the url will be displayed as follows: http://example.com/taxonomy/parentCategory/subCategory/

I found this sloution here:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/155319/how-to-include-parent-terms-in-hierarchical-taxonomy-urls