[wp-testers] Duplicate slug not possible for separate items problem

Yi-iT cnyiit at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 06:13:56 UTC 2010


ok, maybe you're right and WP's category is designed as what you said.   but
i think WP should make the permalink   URL structure more feasibility to
meet  a CMS' need.

thanks a lot,
Frank

2010/9/1 Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>

> Also, category is not a valid thing to place in the permalink string
> and expect it to make a difference. Posts all live in the same space,
> they don't get differentiated by categories, the categories are an
> *attribute* of the posts.
>
> So if you use category/postname as your permalink string, then the
> category is essentially ignored. Go ahead, set your permalink string
> to %category%/%postname%. Then go to one of your posts, like
> http://example.com/cat1/post-name. Then change the "cat1" to a
> non-existent category in your URL, like
> http://example.com/cheese/post-name. You'll find you get the same
> post.
>
> Categories don't work the way you're trying to use them, and it's
> unlikely that they ever will. Categories are not namespaces for posts
> to fit into, they're more like tags.
>
> -Otto
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Yi-iT <cnyiit at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i cannot create the duplicate category slug
> > name in different parent category
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