Wordpress: Categories and Subcategories in Permalink

I have a post in wordpress which belongs to two categories - one is a parent and other is a child [like digital camera --> nikon]

My permalink structure is like this /category/postid/

When i make a post, WP would generate the URL as ww.abc.com/digital-camera/nikon/382/ which is perfect.

However, there are instances when WP won't add the sub-category nikon to the URL and it would then look like abc.com/digital-camera/382

Why does WP skip the sub-category. Any clues ?

 

not sure. if you use this structure

/%category%/%postname%/

wordpress should display like this if you posted the article in chile category

/category/child-category/postname/

btw why did you use postid instead of postname?

-cypher.

 

Here's the exact structure of the permalink:

/%category%/%postname%/%post_id%/

This should produce URL as /category/child-category/postname/ but sometimes the child-category is missing from the URL.

 

im not sure why it be like that. it suppose to be like i described in my earlier post.

or maybe you set the entry to be published in category and child category?

-cypher.

 

yes if you set the post in category and subcategory both the the url produced will be: /category/postname/

if you set it to subcategory only then you will have what you desire:
/category/child-category/postname/

 

thanks for this thread, evne though its like 100 years old i was uncertain if i could do this same thing. then i found /%category%/%postname%/ but my post url was only showing the main parent category. but i had the parent and several sub categories checked, once i selected the latest sub category my urls display exactly how i wanted them to.

thank you everyone for being awesome enough to help people here!

 

What if you have a product that goes in two separate categories that aren't parent/child?
How can I get the URL to include both categorie slugs?