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Wordpress permalink question

by ronc0011
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I'm trying to set up permalinks to better facilitate RSS feeds. I want to create a new feed for each category so I need proper permalinks for each category.

Currently if I click on a category the URL shows something like...

"http://realhomebusiness.us/career%20at%20home/career-at-home/"

Career at home is the category. So it looks like it's pulling the "ugly" version of the category and then amending the "Slug" to it.

Is there a way to customize the permalink for the category i.e.
Start a Real Career At Home
#permalink #question #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
    While we're on the subject of permalinks, here's another question; virtually every website I can find dealing with custom permalinks says to use this structure...

    /%category%/%postname%/

    Every site except Wordpress's website. They say that they "Strongly" suggest that you don't use this structure for performance reasons.

    So what's up with this ???
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    • Profile picture of the author desertsafari
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      • Profile picture of the author Harry Spencer
        Hello

        I can't seem to see the URL with the %20 in them but it does look like you have a main category then a sub category that are the same

        bit like this >> /career-at-home/career-at-home/

        The reason some people don't advise that you use a permalink structure like this is that it takes a web server longer to serve pages if it has to search for the page using letters rather than numbers.

        Using the date first means wordpress and ultimately your web server will use less resources as it can narrow the search to the date really easily.

        Personally I've not had any problems with the sites I've done, I think would only become an issue with lots and lots of pages.

        hope that helps, Harry
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