strange wordpress category problem

[supperman]

Hi!
I made an a category that i call “news”
I put fancy permalinks /%postname%
I also made a menu and put “news” in it.

But when i navigate to this category “news” the url is like this: localhost/category/news
What i want is to be just: localhost/news

Any sugestion?
Thanks for help

[dhechler]

when you say “put fancy permalinks” do you mean you went to “Settings->permalinks” and changed the setting to custom and entered /%postname%/ or did you use a plugin?

[dhechler]

also, visiting /news/ would lead you to the PAGE called /news/ . If you want to have it just be localhost/news/ just create a page called news, then use a page template for that page and query for all posts in the category news.

[supperman]

Thanks for helping out.

I went to settings-permalinks etc. yes
I’ll try what you suggest. I don’t know what you mean by use a page template. Will google…
Thanks

[supperman]

This is a text copy from:
http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-category-from-your-wordpress-url

“
By default, WordPress category permalinks are displayed that way:

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/category/wordpress

As you can see, the category in the url is pretty useless. Here’s how to remove it:

First backup your .htaccess file. Then, open it and append the following line:

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Once saved, your categories pages will be displayed like this:

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/wordpress
“

WIll i be making more trouble in future with this, or is it safe?

[dhechler]

If you have a page called wordpress and a category called wordpress, then yes, you will be making a headache for yourself. Honestly the /category/ in the link really helps me know that im browsing all posts in that category.

[dhechler]

What is your end goal? Is it to make a page called “news” and display all of the posts with the news category attached to them?

[supperman]

My end goal is to have like you said: Page called news and all the posts from news category attached to them.
The problem is that this will be a redesign of an old static page that has a url for example: mydomain.com/news and if i put different url
( /category/ in between) it will broke many links from other sites.

One thing that partly solves my problem is to set a static page and to choose a post page: “news”. That seems to work

[dhechler]

you could try querying for the news category on your news page.

Make a blank news.php page in your theme file and use this code to make it a template

/*

Template Name: News

*/



get_header();

then to query for posts in the news category, just use the query_posts function

//The Query

query_posts( 'category_name=news' );



//The Loop

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

//put all of your code in here to echo a post, such as:

the_title();

endwhile; else:



endif;



//Reset Query

wp_reset_query();



//this calls the sidebar, if you dont want that, then delete this next link

get_sidebar();

//this next line calls the footer.

get_footer();

?>

So all together your code in news.php looks like this.

/*

Template Name: News

*/



get_header();



//The Query

query_posts( 'category_name=news' );



//The Loop

if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();

//put all of your code in here to echo a post, such as:

the_title();

endwhile; else:



endif;



//Reset Query

wp_reset_query();



//this calls the sidebar, if you dont want that, then delete this next link

get_sidebar();

//this next line calls the footer.

get_footer();

?>

then go into your backend to the news page and choose “news” from your template dropdown on the right-hand side.

Hope this helps you get where you need to go.

[supperman]

Thanks dhechler for this. Friend that im setting up this, decided its not a big deal to have a /something/ in between, but ill sure use your sugestion sometime in the future.

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