Hi, I have installed lot of WP SITES, and most of them, when you configure the URLs at:
http://MySite.COM/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
you have the option to just use: /%postname%/
and in this case, neither the “CATEGORY” word, nor the “CATEGORY NAME to which the post belongs to”, appear in the url.
So with that configuration, I just get in all URLs of my site, this:
MYsite.com/post-name
and that´s all. no more words, no more “folders” structure.
But I couldn´t get NEWSPAPER work with that configuration, yet.
How can I get this done with your NEWSPAPER theme?
At LEAST I need to use this URL:
http://MySITE.com/category-of-the-post/postname
but PLEASE, I really NEED to REMOVE from the URL the name “category” (or any other name as it uses another “FOLDER” in the URL and that will kill my SEO).
Important note: I don´t want to use the “.” trick. Of course I don´t want to use a plugin to HIDE this, as I already make the WP configuration in 50s of sites, at PERMALINK configuration, and ALWAYS worked with the core coding of WP.
Please, need your help.
Thanks
Install yoast seo plugin, go to advanced option + permalinks options + remove base category
Regards from mexico
Perfect answer. THanks
Hi, sorry to ask, but I am getting crazy.
After activating WordPress SEO, my admin area, almost all the time give me a BLANK PAGE.
I analyzed the PHP LOGS and I found that wordpress SEO has problesm with NEWSPAPER theme.
Have you found or configured it with this theme?
[12-Nov-2015 18:51:08 UTC] PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /…/web/content/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-rewrite.php:1) in /…/web/content/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1207
Been using it for 2 years now with Newspaper.
Try disabling other plugins, except for visual composer.
Might be issue with the speedbooster, or your caching is not cleared.
Remember whenever you change anything related to permalinks/URLs, you need to fully clear/reset all caching, CDN copies, etc., so that the “new” locations are seen properly.
Thanks for your fast answer.
I disabled EACH and ALL my plugins.
For your surprise, ONLY when I disabled WordPress SEO by YOAST I really could work with in the admin area without blank pages.
Please let me know if I can FIX that error:
PHP Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /…/web/content/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-rewrite.php:1) in /…/web/content/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1207
or If I can HIDE the “category” folder of the theme with another trick.
thanks
PS: if you want to login to my WP installation, please let me know.
thanks in advance.
Unfortunately any method of hiding the /category/ slug is problematic and may or may not work. One of my sites it won’t work at all. Another one it does. On same server. Same theme. Can’t sort out why.
(I don’t work here; just some feedback.)
You can try any other plugin to hide category slug. Visit wordpress repositorie plugins
One old method was to put a period in the permalinks page for the category name; does not seem to work anymore.
The Yoast SEO option seems to work, as do some of the plugins, but some folks report it only works if you have your permalinks set as post name plus something else like -storyID or .html or similar.
Some folks it only works if WP in a sub-directory vs root.
Seems to vary quite a bit.
I just went through this last weekend for a new install while also moving the wp-content directory to assets, and couple of other hacks.
On the other hand — if the YOAST method works with the default WP theme, but does NOT work with the Newspaper theme, then that WOULD be a minor bug.
Doing the ‘force rewrite’ option in YOAST might also be worth a try.
