I’m envious – I sure can’t replicate that trick on my 2.0.5 install.
What version of WP are you running?
I don’t think it’ll cause any problems whatsoever, but I dunno that I’d count on it…
Have you specified a special category permalink structure under Options > Permalinks? That might be it.
My permalink structure is :
/%category%/%postname%/
Is that why this works?
I just don’t want to worry about it getting screwed up later.
No, I’m referring to your *category* base, which is under “Optional” in the Permalink options screen.
No I haven’t changed that, and I am running 2.0.5
Can anyone tell me if this will have implications, like possibly breaking WP in the future?
You can see a live demo of this by going here:
http://www.freelovemd.com/section/ask-lovemd/
and
http://www.freelovemd.com/ask-lovemd/
both work fine. So I would like to change it permanently to the second one, but I am worried it will cause problems in the future.
Anyone?
Figured out a solution:
If you are going to use it as a CMS with a couple categories, like the example I am giving just create Page Templates that query the posts from the specific category:
<?php query_posts(‘cat=2’); ?>
put that before the loop, and then use all the same template tags you would use if you were creating a custom category page. Then you can use links to these Pages without the /category/ because they will be Pages.
This is only useful if you are linking to your categories from a “static” navigation menu. If you are linking to the categories dynamically with a Template Tag WP will use the /category/ in the link.
Hope this helps someone.
