Title: Permalink Category Display Help Request
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Permalink Category Display Help Request

 *  [jeremymgp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremymgp/)
 * (@jeremymgp)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-display-help-request/)
 * Hi,
 * I’d like to setup my blog to look like a static site, so I’ve added the permalink
   structure:
    /%category%/%postname%.html This means that whenever I click on a
   post, it’s in it’s own category with a nice .html ending, for example: [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/postname.html](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/postname.html)
 * Howver, when I click on a category, an extra “/category/” folder is inserted 
   into the URL rewrite. The category should read:
    [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/)
   but instead it reads: [http://www.sitename.com/category/categoryname/](http://www.sitename.com/category/categoryname/)
 * The extra text “/category/” is being inserted by mistake.
 * Also I’d like to have my category urls have an index.html file extension as well,
   for example:
    [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/index.html](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/index.html)
   rather than just: [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/)
   Is this possible?
 * Thanks a lot for your help,
 * Cheers,
    Jeremy

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-display-help-request/#post-397756)
 * Suppose, as admin, you visited your Options -> Permalinks page.
    And scrolled
   down a bit. And noticed the blank field labeled “Category Base”.
 * What you want isn’t possible. If it was, you’d have WP “Pages” crashing into 
   Wp “Categories” and it would be an absolute trainwreck. However, if you don’t
   dig “Category”, you can type something else into that field instead.
 *  [dopecoder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dopecoder/)
 * (@dopecoder)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-display-help-request/#post-398040)
 * i dont use pages in wp and would like to have my site category listed as
 * [http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/](http://www.sitename.com/categoryname/)
 * instead of
 * [http://www.sitename.com/category/categoryname/](http://www.sitename.com/category/categoryname/)
 * there must be a wayaround or hack for that,
 * would anyone know how to do that using mod rewrite if not possible through permalinks
 *  [dopecoder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dopecoder/)
 * (@dopecoder)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-display-help-request/#post-398041)
 * hi i just found a way around and works perectly for me, checkout [http://www.no1guide.co.nz](http://www.no1guide.co.nz)
 * found the workaround from [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/18304?replies=26](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/18304?replies=26)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dopecoder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dopecoder/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-display-help-request/#post-398041)
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