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How to get permalinks with category base working with sub-categories

I was able to get this to work pretty easily actually. I am now able to have my category base in my permalinks. This allows me to now have URLs like: http://www.new1450.dev/industries/ {Main blog post only showing category selection} http://www.new1450.dev/industries/development/ {a parent category} http://www.new1450.dev/industries/development/parent-category-i/ {child of parent} http://www.new1450.dev/industries/development/parent-category-i/child-category-i/ {child of child} http://www.new1450.dev/industries/development/parent-category-i/child-category-i/some-cool-post/ {actual post} This … Read more

Can’t custom taxonomies have same terms (slugs) as categories?

Turns out, this is a bug in the core. I was about to report it, but found out that it’s been there for, like years, and applies to custom taxonomies as well. See tickets: #5809, #21950 and #22023. If all goes as planned, it’s set to be fixed in 3.8 3.9 4.1 4.2. UPDATE: Yep, … Read more

Posts URL structure like site.com/category/the-post-title

Yes, any of those are possible and configurable under Settings > Permalinks. Have a look at the Permalinks page for other possibilities. One thing to note though, it’s suggested to add a number at the beginning of your permalinks to reduce the number of rewrite rules WordPress has to generate to resolve all of your … Read more

Retrieve Product category ‘NAME’ by product category ID – WooCommerce?

Use get_term_by: $id = 42; if( $term = get_term_by( ‘id’, $id, ‘product_cat’ ) ){ echo $term->name; }

Custom permalink structure leads to be 404 on pagination

That is totally normal behaviour. If you want to remove category base you will need to write some custom rewrite rules, not simple rules I must say. From my point of view, removing category base requires a extra job in each request that is worthless because it doesn’t provide any advantage for SEO or for … Read more

Remove parent category from permalink? Basically only have the child category?

This code pretty much does the job for this question and another one about removing the /category/ base from the permalinks. Got it from a plugin that does this, and decided to just use the raw code. So the permalinks only have the lowest child-category listed. First, we had: example.com/category/items/books/ and now… example.com/books The RSS … Read more

How can I create a category landing page followed by pages of posts?

This is quite an interesting question (which I have upvoted, specially for your approach and research). The big curveball here is the first page of the query: You cannot set the query to return 0 posts on the first page By moving the page content of every page up by one page, you will loose … Read more

Individual rss feed entry length for categories?

You should be able to use pre_get_posts and set the posts_per_page to 50 conditionally (on being feed for categories). Unfortunately there is this unresolved trac ticket. The only work-around is to do hook into post_limits and replace the LIMIT part of the SQL query directly. add_action(‘post_limits’,’wpse71759_category_rss_limit’,10,2); function wpse71759_category_rss_limit($limit, $query){ if( $query->is_feed() && $query->is_category() ){ $paged … Read more

Get rid of WordPress category, tag and author archives?

building on chrisguitarguy’s answer here is a quick snippet you can drop in your theme’s functions.php file to do job add_action(‘template_redirect’, ‘wpse69948_archive_disabler’); function wpse69948_archive_disabler() { if(is_tag() || is_category() || is_date() || is_author()) { global $wp_query; $wp_query->set_404(); } }

How do I remove “Uncategorized” from posts with more than 1 category?

With wp-cli installed you can run a bash script like this to remove the ‘uncategorized’ category from all posts with more than one category #!/bin/bash for post in $(wp post list –field=ID) do count=$(wp post term list $post ‘category’ –fields=”name” –format=”count”) if [ “$count” -gt “1” ] then wp post term remove $post category ‘uncategorized’ … Read more

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