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Noah Laurent
Noah Laurent
3,080 Points
Posted by Noah Laurent
Noah Laurent
3,080 Points

How to plan a wordpress category based site without conflicting categories pages and tags? Is multisite the way to go?

Hello,

Im planning a local tourist guide for few cities in my country but I can’t figure out the website planning for this project. Here it goes:

My ideal Url strategy is: tour.pt/city/category/sub-category

If /city/ is itself category I have a problem, because will be a category conflict, for example: tour.pt/city-1/what-to-do/sub-category tour.pt/city-2/what-to-do/sub-category

I cant have /what-to-do/ category to both city-1 and city-2 category hierarchy..

Should the /city/ be a individual page with a custom menu for each? Even this way I would have a category conflict and I would have to change the category name for each place..

Should I go multisite subdomain style: city-1.tour.pt/category? That doesnt make much sense since it’s a small project with little content per city/local, but it would work.

This is another pratical example tour.pt/algarve/where-to-stay/hotels/best-hotels-in-algarve being: home.pt/category-1/category-1.1/category-1-1-1/post Should this be: home.pt/page-1/category-1/category-1.1/post

This way I will get a messy content conflict, because “hotels” is a shared category, that can have diferent parents, because It suits all cities.

I really don’t know out to proceed beacause I only worked in single topic/product/company projects before, and since now I can have many topics (cities) I dont know what strategy is best.

Check these ones out for better picture: http://imgur.com/Xiz62Vr http://imgur.com/NVL0URP

Thanks in advance, Laurent

1 Answer

Gabriel Tartaglia
Gabriel Tartaglia
41,581 Points
Gabriel Tartaglia
Gabriel Tartaglia
41,581 Points

Hi Laurent,

I guess the best option is register a new taxonomy for cities.

Here is one way that you can do it:

  1. Download, install and activate the Custom Post Type UI plugin
  2. Register a new taxonomy at CPT UI > Add/Edit Taxonomies. Fill the fields with city, City, Cities (or whatever you like) and check Posts.
  3. Create some cities at Posts > Cities
  4. Set your permalink to /%city%/%category%/%postname%. Replace %city% with the slug of your custom taxonomy.
  5. It is not working yet. You need to add a filter hook in your code to tell WordPress what exactly it needs to do with this %city% thing. I prepared the code for you, just put it in the functions.php of your theme or plugin.
function gotreehouse_custom_permalink($permalink, $post_id, $leavename) {
    $default_slug = 'anywhere';  // In case the post do not have a city
    $the_slug       = 'city';            // The slug you choose for your taxonomy

    if ( false === strpos( $permalink, "%$the_slug%" ) ) return $permalink;

    $post = get_post( $post_id );
    if ( ! $post ) return $permalink;

    $terms = wp_get_object_terms( $post->ID, $the_slug );
    if ( ! is_wp_error( $terms ) && ! empty( $terms ) && is_object( $terms[0] ) )
        $taxonomy_slug = $terms[0]->slug;
    else
        $taxonomy_slug = $default_slug;

    return str_replace( "%$the_slug%", $taxonomy_slug, $permalink );
}
add_filter( 'post_link', 'gotreehouse_custom_permalink', 10, 3 );

Take a special look at the first and second line of the function. The default_slug is used in case your post does not have a city checked, will be like yousite.com/default-slug/hotels/the-post and the_slug is simply the slug you choose at the time you create your taxonomy.

After that, you should have the expected behaviour.

I hope this helps with your problem.