Comments on: WordPress Categories Adding Subcategories To Your WordPress Blog

By: Daniel Losada

Daniel Losada — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:46:41 +0000

I wish there was a way to make one category assigned as the URL per post so that it eliminates duplicate content.

By: Michael the Lawyer

Michael the Lawyer — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:29:20 +0000

We need a better URI system in WordPress. We need categories and subcategories for display of data but have no control over just using one or the other. I need the category to appear in the URL but not the subcategories. It makes little sense to include subcategories because even assuming post names may be identical categories are required to be different. There will never be duplicate URLs across categories, making subcategories unnecessary. The listing of articles in categories still requires a category slug, which I understand at least. But WordPress has gone far ahead in one area and has not progressed for years in others. I’m hoping that this can be addressed.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:25:38 +0000

I don’t use subcategories on my blogs, and it isn’t really an SEO issue if you don’t use the categories in your permalinks.
If using categories in the permalinks then I suggest using only one category per post and don’t use child or subcategories… No, I don’t know of another solution.

By: OfficeSupplyGeek

OfficeSupplyGeek — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:13:32 +0000

Is there an ideal, or better alternative solution?

By: FunMahoL

FunMahoL — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:21:01 +0000

Its so good to make subcategories and at other end it is so harmful for your ranking because of change in url’s.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:49:09 +0000

If the Platinum SEO plugin creates redirects then I guess so. Not an ideal solution but yes.

By: Blogging Product Analysis

Blogging Product Analysis — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:24:53 +0000

If you use Platinum SEO plugin doesn’t that take care of this problem you stated in your post?

“You are not going to loose your post but any links from other sites pointing to that URL will be broken because the change of the URL made by changing or deleting the category the post was in.”

By: Bugjee

Bugjee — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:14:38 +0000

nice article but finally i don’t decide that which are best way

By: Funny Commercials

Funny Commercials — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:17:13 +0000

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By: WordPress Guide To Writing A WordPress Post

WordPress Guide To Writing A WordPress Post — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:38:13 +0000

[...] For a category, found on the top right side, I rarely use more than one, but this would depend on your blogs topic. If you have a pretty wide range of topics then there may be a temptation to add your post to a few categories. I also suggest adding categories in the Manage Categories panel and not from the write post panel. Read more about WordPress categories. [...]