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Wordpress Categories Question

by Phil
3 replies
Hi guys,

I've tried asking this at the Wordpress.org forum but not had
any response that helps.

I am using the MassivePress WP template which creates a nice
picture gallery of all the posts I make. Every time I make a post,
I simply add it to the category 'featured' in addition to whichever
categories I want it to appear in.

The 'featured' gallery is a bit of php which sits in the third column
and shows little thiumbnaol images of all my post images.

I have set my permalinks to /category/postname.html

The problem I am having is that the URL of EVERY post I make
defaults to having 'featured' as its category.
EG: http://www.domainname.com/featured/postname.html

Which is not helpful for either visitors or search engines.
How do I change this?

Thanks,
Phil
#categories #question #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author JustVisiting
    Originally Posted by Phil View Post

    Hi guys,

    Every time I make a post,
    I simply add it to the category 'featured' in addition to whichever
    categories I want it to appear in.
    First off, I would only add a post to *one* category. I believe this is better for seo since it avoids the duplicate content penalty.
    ...Unless of course you are blocking the spiders from crawling and indexing your categories.
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    • Profile picture of the author Phil
      Originally Posted by JustVisiting View Post

      First off, I would only add a post to *one* category. I believe this is better for seo since it avoids the duplicate content penalty.
      ...Unless of course you are blocking the spiders from crawling and indexing your categories.
      Thanks, but the 'featured' category is a picture gallery, it doesn't display the
      article itself, only the picture associated with the article.

      Phil
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  • Profile picture of the author joblythe
    Phil

    Because of the way you have your permalinks set up, you are going to get "featured" displaying. You need to change the permalink structure to something else.

    Using Permalinks WordPress Codex

    HTH
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