Categories hierarchy in admin but flat in production – howto?

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  assafn · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 9:02 am

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  Hi,

  I am building a new blog which will have many categories in a hierarchy. From experience, categories tend to change and move around. This can have a big cost in SEO terms (and broken links in general). My preferred solution to this would be to keep a hierarchy of categories in the admin section of wordpress but to have flat urls for them.

  e.g. say we have internet and under it sub-categories: chrome, ie, ff. This will be normally configured in the admin. Currently wordpress will give those categories the following urls:
  /internet
  /internet/chrome
  /internet/ie

  I would like to have it flat as follows:
  /internet
  /chrome
  /ie

  Does anyone know how to achieve this?

  Thanks!
  /internet/ff

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 9:19 am

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  No, you cannot.

  I don’t even think you could do this with a self-hosted site and I can’t help but think it has the potential to turn into a WMD.

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  auxclass · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 9:20 am

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  The blog linked to your name is empty – we need a link to the blog you are asking about to give you accurate help.

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  assafn · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 9:21 am

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  Hi,

  I have not setup the blog yet. If needed, I will use a private installation on our servers.

  Thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2011 at 9:32 am

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  I don’t even think you could do this with a self-hosted site and I can’t help but think it has the potential to turn into a WMD.