I was wondering if anyone could give their thoughts on this -- one thing that I never liked about Wordpress is how categories were forced to be within their own "division". For instance, Wordpress pages look like this: mysite.com/WordpressPage ...while Wordpress categories look like this: mysite.com/category/WordpressCategory ...and once again, if you have a sub-category within that category, the "/category/" disappears from the URL, making it look like this: mysite.com/WordpressCategory/SubCategory The problem with the last two URLs on this list is that they break the hierarchy of the site. The first of the two has "/category/" in the URL, and the other does not - so, some pages point to URLs that include "/category/" within the URL, and more drilled-down pages don't include it within theirs (this becomes a problem, especially if you're using breadcrumb trails for navigation). Is this hurting SEO in any way? If so, is there some kind of plugin to fix it? I think that the main problem is how Wordpress created "pages", they get the first level of the URL instead of being forced into a 2nd level like Wordpress categories are. I hope this all made sense, it's hard to explain
You can setup your permalinks however you want. For example, if you use /%category%/%postname% It will be like this: yoursite.com/category yoursite.com/category/subcategory yoursite.com/category/articleinmaincategory yoursite.com/category/subcategory/anotherarticle
Well if you want to get rid of /category/ altogether check out this plugin: http://www.brianshoff.com/wordpress/category-base-removal-plugin.htm.
Ahh, that's the plugin I'm probably looking for. I'd want to ditch the "/category/" altogether. Even if you don't specify what you want the category to be called, it forces you to use a generic one. I never understood why. The bad news is that it looks like this plugin creates problems down the road, especially with category RSS. This is just a rare but really stupid thing Wordpress has never fixed.