Removing date from an article's URL? — please.
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Hi.
I’m a beginner just starting a blog.I really, really don’t like URL’s that include numbers (the date). I would gladly post only pages: I see those can have clean URL’s, without a date.
BUT… I want my navigation menu to contain ONLY CATEGORIES. From what I’ve seen, it’s not possible to add pages to menu categories. Only articles can be added to a menu category.
… so, if I’m forced to stick to articles, how do I get rid of those awkward, annoying numbers in the URL?
Thanks.
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Aloha outerspacevisitor, You are not able to remove the date from URLs on WordPress.com sites; you would need to use a self-hosted WordPress.org site in order to do that.
More about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/You can create a custom menu and and only categories to it. This page describes how to do this:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Hello, Geoffrey.
Thanks for replying.I see!… Well, in that case is there a way to add pages to a category in my navigation menu?
For example, the menu will look like this:
HOME . ECONOMY . POLITICS . CONTACT
I want “Economy” to be a category: when clicked, I want it to display all pages from that category. That way I could work only with pages, and pages have no date in the URL.
If I cannot add pages to categories, then why? Maybe a WordPress admin sees this. Why?… It makes no sense.
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Categories can only be assigned to posts. You could create the pages you wanted and then create a custom menu to display those in the order you wanted. This would allow you to use pages and have them under the correct categories, such as economy or politics.
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