Title: Same Post Name – Diff Category: Not Working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Same Post Name – Diff Category: Not Working

 *  [drivenmg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivenmg/)
 * (@drivenmg)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/)
 * I’m not sure but for some reason or another I can’t get this to work.
 * Here is an example of what i am TRYING to do:
 * Tmobile
    -about -phones -plans
 * Sprint
    -about -phones -plans
 * but when i try to do the sprint/about – it will come up sprint/about-2
 * It’s a different category and the ‘about’ is a post name. Do I need to just create“
   pages” or is there a work around for this?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095163)
 * Categories, even sub-categories (category with parent), must be unique.
 *  Thread Starter [drivenmg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivenmg/)
 * (@drivenmg)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095213)
 * these aren’t sub-categories. These are pages (post) w/in unique categories.
 * domain.com/category1/about
 * domain.com/category2/about
 * make sense?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095214)
 * no
 *  Thread Starter [drivenmg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivenmg/)
 * (@drivenmg)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095315)
 * lol i’m using unique url’s for the permalinks so once again:
 * domain.com/category1/about
    domain.com/category1/sales
 * vs
 * domain.com/category2/about
    domain.com/category2/sales
 * to go a step further
 * domain.com/category1/subcategory1/about
    domain.com/category1/subcategory1/sales
 * vs
 * domain.com/category2/subcategory2/about
    domain.com/category2/subcategory2/sales
 * in **BOTH** “/about” and “/sales” are **POST** – they are “about” that particular
   category and **UNDER** that particular category.
 * does that help?
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095346)
 * Okay got it.
 * You may need to resort to using %post_id in your [Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks)
   to make each unique.
 * As a note, some developers would recommend against using category based Permalinks,
   for performance reasons.
 *  Thread Starter [drivenmg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drivenmg/)
 * (@drivenmg)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095347)
 * I’ll try it out. THANKS!
 * On the 2nd part re: developers – how does it affect performance?
 * btw thanks for all your help!
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/same-post-name-diff-category-not-working/#post-1095348)
 * > how does it affect performance?
 * Retards performance as it has to check database for rewrite rules. See this thread
   on the wp-testers email list: [http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2009-January/011097.html](http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2009-January/011097.html)
   Quoting from Ryan Boren on that thread:
    “Verbose rules are used for structures
   beginning with %category%, %tag%, %postname%, and %author%. Avoiding such structures
   is best. ”

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