Title: URL structure when using multiple categories?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# URL structure when using multiple categories?

 *  [Ross Morsali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/designsandcode/)
 * (@designsandcode)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-structure-when-using-multiple-categories/)
 * Hi there hoping someone can shed some light…
 * Basically I’m developing a plugin which allows you to filter your posts according
   to various taxonomies, Category being one of them.
 * Now the obvious way to to filter your posts by multiple categories would be to
   use a string like:
 * [http://www.yoursite.com/?category_name=category1+category2+category3](http://www.yoursite.com/?category_name=category1+category2+category3)
 * This works fine and as expected. However after playing around with the URL I 
   also realised this works:
 * [http://www.yoursite.com/category/category1+category2+category3/](http://www.yoursite.com/category/category1+category2+category3/)
 * Does anyone know of any drawbacks using this second method or if there are any
   reasons it may or may not be encouraged? Personally I prefer the second way of
   writing it however there is very little documentation, and most other plugins
   out there that play with multiple categories write the URL in the way of the 
   first method above!
 * I am obviously doing a check to see whether permalinks are enabled and only using
   the second method when they are.
 * Any thoughts welcome 🙂

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 * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/)
 * [multiple categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-categories/)
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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/url-structure-when-using-multiple-categories/)
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