Title: Multiple Parent categories?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple Parent categories?

 *  [Nathan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myusedtextcom/)
 * (@myusedtextcom)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-parent-categories/)
 * Is this possible? I run a used textbook classified site and people want their
   textbooks to be organized University. I don’t see why this is really necessary
   because people can see the location of the book. but I suppose it would be beneficial
   to have the url be Myusedtext.com/University-name/textbook-name. so is their 
   anyway to do this?

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-parent-categories/#post-1061374)
 * Not understanding exactly what you mean
 * WordPress categories can be hierarchical
 * parent
    child grand-child etc
 * however, a child can only have one parent
 * WordPress also offers tags, which are not hierarchical. If a book has the Univ
   Fla tag and the Biology tag, you can search for books tagged Univ Fla that are
   also tagged biology

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-parent-categories/#post-1061374)
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