In vielen WordPress-SEO-Anleitungen heißt es, dass einfache Permalinks am besten sind. Aber nachdem wir mit vielen Websites gearbeitet haben, haben wir festgestellt, dass das nicht immer wahr ist.
Manchmal, vor allem bei großen Websites, ist es besser, URLs zu verwenden, die zeigen, wo Sie sich befinden, wie z. B. „yourstore.com/electronics/smartphones/iphone“. Diese klare Struktur kann die Nutzung Ihrer Website erleichtern.
Wenn Sie neu in WordPress sind, fragen Sie sich vielleicht, wie Sie diese Art von Permalinks-Struktur für Ihre Website einrichten können. In diesem Leitfaden zeigen wir Ihnen, wie Sie Kategorien und Unterkategorien zu Ihren URLs hinzufügen können. Wir erläutern, warum Sie das wollen, wie Sie es sicher machen und worauf Sie achten müssen.
Wann die Kategorie und Unterkategorie in WordPress-URLs enthalten sein sollten
Einige WordPress-Websites verwenden Kategorien und Unterkategorien in ihren URLs, wenn sie viele Inhalte auf ihren Websites haben und diese besser organisieren wollen. Bei WPBeginner verwenden wir diese Strategie, um unseren Lesern die Navigation auf unserer Website zu erleichtern.
Zum Beispiel:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/
Für Online-Shops bietet die Aufnahme von Kategorien und Unterkategorien in URLs einen visuellen Hinweis auf den Inhalt, auf den die Kunden zugreifen werden, was das Benutzererlebnis verbessern kann.
Eine URL wie onlinestore.com/books/fiction/thriller zeigt beispielsweise an, dass der Benutzer zu einer bestimmten Unterkategorie innerhalb einer umfassenderen Kategorie auf der WordPress-Website navigiert.
Die Aufnahme von Kategorien und Unterkategorien in die URLs kann Suchmaschinen auch helfen, die Struktur Ihrer Website zu verstehen. Die URL würde der Breadcrumb-Navigation auf Ihrer Website entsprechen und mehr Schlüsselwörter und Text enthalten, was Ihre Website SEO-freundlicher macht.
Weitere Informationen zu Kategorien finden Sie in unseren Leitfäden zu WordPress-Taxonomien und Kategorien vs. Tags: Beste SEO-Praktiken für die Sortierung Ihrer Inhalte.
Wenn Sie die Standard-URL-Struktur von WordPress verwenden, sind Ihre Kategorien und Unterkategorien nicht in den Post-URLs enthalten. Sehen wir uns also an, wie Sie ganz einfach Kategorien und Unterkategorien in WordPress-URLs hinzufügen können.
Einfaches Hinzufügen von Kategorien und Unterkategorien in WordPress Post-URLs
Hinweis: Wir raten davon ab, Permalinks zu ändern, wenn Ihre WordPress-Website bereits eine Weile in Betrieb ist (d. h. mehr als sechs Monate). Andernfalls können Sie Ihre Platzierungen in den Suchmaschinen verlieren.
Wenn Sie Ihre Permalink-Struktur ändern müssen, empfehlen wir Ihnen, Ihre Website für den Fall von Fehlern zu sichern und Weiterleitungen von den alten URLs zu den neuen zu erstellen.
Zunächst müssen Sie die Seite Einstellungen “ Permalinks in Ihrem WordPress-Admin-Dashboard aufrufen. Dort müssen Sie im Bereich Allgemeine Einstellungen auf die Option „Benutzerdefinierte Struktur“ klicken.
Als Nächstes müssen Sie /%category%/%postname%/ in das Feld neben der benutzerdefinierten Struktur hinzufügen.
Vergessen Sie anschließend nicht, auf die Schaltfläche „Änderungen speichern“ zu klicken, um Ihre benutzerdefinierten Einstellungen für die Permalinkstruktur zu speichern.
Das ist alles!
WordPress beginnt nun, Kategorien und untergeordnete Kategorien in WordPress URLs hinzuzufügen. Sie können die individuellen Permalink-Einstellungen in Aktion sehen, indem Sie einen neuen Beitrag erstellen oder einen bestehenden Beitrag bearbeiten.
Weisen Sie dem Beitrag einfach eine Kategorie (und gegebenenfalls eine Unterkategorie) in der Seitenleiste zu und klicken Sie auf die Schaltfläche „Aktualisieren“.
Sie werden feststellen, dass der Name der Kategorie und der Name der Unterkategorie im Permalink des Beitrags enthalten sind.
Wie würde die URL aussehen, wenn ich mehrere Kategorien oder Unterkategorien verwende?
Nehmen wir an, Sie sortieren Ihre WordPress-Blogbeiträge in mehrere Kategorien oder Unterkategorien.
WordPress wird nur eine Kategorie und eine Unterkategorie in die URL aufnehmen. Wenn Sie keine Unterkategorie ausgewählt haben, wird nur eine übergeordnete Kategorie angezeigt.
WordPress wählt die Kategorie alphabetisch aus. Wenn Sie beispielsweise einen Beitrag in den Kategorien „Apfel“ und „Technik“ ablegen, wird WordPress „Apfel“ in die URL aufnehmen, da diese Kategorie in alphabetischer Reihenfolge an erster Stelle steht:
http://example.com/apple/article-title-here/
Wenn Sie einen Beitrag in der Kategorie „Apple“ und einer darunter liegenden Unterkategorie namens „Technologie“ ablegen, werden beide Kategorien in der URL aufgeführt:
https://example.com/apple/technology/article-title-here/
Wenn Sie eine Unterkategorie, aber keine übergeordnete Kategorie ausgewählt haben, wird WordPress trotzdem die übergeordnete Kategorie in die URL aufnehmen.
Ein anderes Szenario ist, dass Sie eine übergeordnete Kategorie, eine Unterkategorie und eine Unter-Unterkategorie haben. WordPress wird alle drei in den WordPress-Permalink aufnehmen:
https://example.com/apple/technology/events/article-title-here/
Weitere Informationen über Permalinks finden Sie in den folgenden WordPress-Anleitungen:
- Wie man Zahlen aus WordPress-URLs entfernt
- Wie man das Datum aus WordPress-URLs entfernt
- Ändern von Permalinks für benutzerdefinierte Beitragstypen in WordPress
Wir hoffen, dass dieser Artikel Ihnen geholfen hat, zu lernen, wie man eine Kategorie und Unterkategorie in WordPress URLs einfügt. Vielleicht interessieren Sie sich auch für unseren Artikel über das Ändern des Basispräfixes für Kategorien in WordPress und unsere Anleitung für Anfänger zum Erstellen individueller Taxonomien in WordPress.
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AB Juma
Hi there,
Thank you for this. Very helpful.
Just a question – I already have more than 2,000 posts on my website with the day and name url structure. If I change to custom, will those urls change too, or does the change only apply to new posts? Thanks.
WPBeginner Support
Yes, if you change your permalinks it would affect everything on your site. You would want to set up 301 redirects to prevent issues if you change the structure, our guide below should help with that!
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-creating-redirects-in-wordpress/
Admin
Jay
it’s only putting the Parent cateogry in the slug.
How can i make it automatically put subcategory in the url as well?
WPBeginner Support
Please check that the post is only in the subcategory for the most likely reason for that issue.
Admin
Brendon
This seems to break any products that do not use a sub category at all.
WPBeginner Support
It should not cause you trouble with products that don’t have a sub category but if you mean you changed your permalinks then you would want to set up 301 redirects following our guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-permalinks-in-wordpress/#redirect-permalink
Admin
Taoheed
I would be glad if you answer this. Let’s assume i published a post into two/three categories or sub-categories, wouldn’t it be treated as duplicate content on google?
WPBeginner Support
It should not cause Google to see it as duplicate content but if you have posts that are in multiple categories then your users would see that same post when they viewed your other categories. We would normally recommend only one category for a post.
Admin
David
Please is there a way to include tags in the URL instead of categories?
WPBeginner Support
We do not have a recommended method for including tags in your URL at the moment, we would recommend taking a look at our article below that covers the organizational differences between the two for why categories are preferred over tags in permalinks:
wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/categories-vs-tags-seo-best-practices-which-one-is-better/
Admin
Phu Nguyen
Hi,
Currently I have a url: abc.com/games/ff9/weapon-list/
and I can’t create another post with the same name (weapon-list) on another category.
It will be like abc.com/games/ffx/weapon-list-1/
Is there any solution for my case? Looking forward to your help
WPBeginner Support
The end of the URL would be determined by your post’s name and the other sections would be determined by your permalink structure. You cannot have the same name for the time being and would need a different name
Admin
Lori S.
So for pages, it would just skip over the /%category%/ and maintain the original post name?
WPBeginner Support
Yes
Admin
Ashish
Is it a disadvantage to using categories in URL? like example.com/plugin/best-plugin/. in this case plugin uses 2 times. is this URL looks spammy?
WPBeginner Support
You would want to try avoiding looking spammy with your choice of title but it is not a disadvantage to use categories n your URL.
Admin
jacques
Important note: To get URL structure like: /category/child1/child2/POSTNAME then ONLY select „child2“ as the post category when editing the post. Wordpress will automatically add all parent categories to the URL. Took me a while to figure that out.
WPBeginner Support
Thanks for sharing this for people looking for that permalink setup
Admin
Austin Epple
You’re the man. I’ve been tearing my hair out trying to get these stupid subcategories in the url. Thank you!
Smart
Thank you so much @jacques, you just helped me solve a challenge that has taking me so many hours without solution. Thanks mahn
Rubb
How this work with pages? pages don’t use categories
WPBeginner Support
As they do not have categories, they would not have the category in the URL
Admin
Ben
So how do i redirect from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname without the redirection plugin.
WPBeginner Support
For different methods to create redirects we would recommend taking a look at our guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/beginners-guide-to-creating-redirects-in-wordpress/
Admin
May
Is there a way to add hierarchy to parent categories? If a post has two categories how can I chose which category is used in the URL.
As you say in your article, default is alphabetical.
For example I have a post categorised „Fruit“ and „Vegetable“ with the permalink set to show /%category%/%postname%/.
The URL shows website.com/Fruit/postname but I want it to use website.com/vegetable/postname.
WPBeginner Support
In those situations, you may want to look into how your categories are organized to see if tags may be what you need more than categories for some organizations. Normally posts shouldn’t be in multiple categories.
Admin
Nik
How can I add category in my page url.
WPBeginner Support
By default, pages don’t have categories so they wouldn’t be included in the page options.
Admin
Mlimasolucoes
Use subcategory as primary category then URL will work
WPBeginner Support
Thank you for sharing that recommendation
Admin
Muhammad Kashif Rasheed
You answer is valuable for me, because I read all the post but not permalink not work fine on my side, when I applied your suggestion I got answer of my question.
Once again thankyou very much,
Sravankumar
I am unable to see subcategory in any posts.
I am facing issue while creating a post name. How can Icreate a URL like this: site/destinations/europe/norway/post-name
I have the page to create a URL like above is it only possible if I create a page or with post name also can we create?
site/destinations/europe/norway/
WPBeginner Support
If I’m understanding the question correctly, you don’t need to create a page at the second link’s location as that would be your subcategory’s page listing the posts in that subcategory.
Admin
Nancy
Can i Include Category and Subcategory in post URLs without using permalink
WPBeginner Support
If you don’t want to edit your permalinks then you would normally need to manually add those using a method in: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-create-custom-permalinks-in-wordpress/
Admin
V
Adding /%category%/%postname%/ to the permalink structure breaks the pagination for some reason. Anyone else facing this?
WPBeginner Support
There are multiple possible reasons pagination could not be working, you may want to check with your specific theme’s support or reach out to us using our contact form for which would likely fix the issue.
Admin
jesica
How did you do to link your subcategory menu pages to a clean url: YOURSITE.COM/SUBCATEGORY? without the YOURSITE.COM/CATEGORY/SUBCATEGORY?
I don’t know how to delete the parent category from the subcategory URL on my site…
WPBeginner Support
We don’t have a simple recommended method at the moment. If you want to remove reference to the parent category, should that category be a child category?
Admin
Shubham Dixit
I have an issue. I am using Custom Structure to display category name before the post name ( /%category%/%postname%/ ). It is working fine when I am logged in but after log out It doesn’t display category name in url.
The above issue in in chorme browser. In firefox it is working fine.
Please help!
Ted
Yeah.. we all know this information.. you see %category% and it is obvious what it does. But Thanks….
WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR is code as in rewrite rules for my themes functions file..
jcdarocha
Hi !
Trick works well for a blog post / category.
but what about woocommerce ? ay idea ?
Even when you add this in permalink structure, WC show the main-category/product-name even if there 2 or 3 sub categories
This is really annoying,
Any idea?
Thank you
Jean-Charles
Paul
Got the same question. Why is that not possible for Woocommerce?!
Any help is appreciated!
Simon
This is great, but how would I go about having multiple URLs for the same post with multiple categories? So if I go from 1 category the URL is for that category and if I go from another it is that category?
Thanks
Jordan
Won’t this cause duplication problems? How do you make it so the parent category doesn’t open to an archive page?
Like as an example – Main topic Music and then have a subcategory called popmusic…..
Music ( Not Clickable )
Pop Music ( Clickable and rediects to your posts associated with that sub categories)
My issue with this is people clicking the parent categories and getting redirected to a page with no post associated with it because you don’t want to have duplicate content or a post in music & pop music
Yash chandra verma
So what will be url if two different parent category are used. Please tell me?
Vale
Why Woocommerce do not support Subcaregories in permalinks?
Google and other browsers recommed clean URL’s. And woocommerce Category slug can not be removed unless you pay $119 Usd for a plugin that does the trick.
Is there another way to achieve these two issues?
Jose
Thanks for this post. Its working for me. The only thing doesn`t work is when i try to list news by a subcategory
Eg. mydomain.com/categorybase/subcategory/nameofnew/
this works showing me the blog post, but if i want to list all posts of this subcategory like this
mydomain.com/categorybase/subcategory/
does’nt work.
Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
Denish Callos
HI,
I have added categories and tags in my pages. Now how do i add categories in pages permalink?
Please suggestion will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Kahil
This solution ONLY works if you select the subcategory in the post/page category list. If you have both the parent and the subcategories checked, then the parent category is the only one that shows. For those of us using Woocommerce, this messes with the related products. If you select just the subcategory, then you won’t see any related items from the parent category. If you select them both, then you’re back to dealing with not having the subcategory listed in your URL. Been looking for a simple solution to cover both needs.
Paul
Have you found a solution? We have the same exact problem right now. This is quite annoying and we don’t know what to do about it.
Any ideas or solutions are appreciated!
regel
Hi don’t have „permalink“ on my setting. Any option?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Regel,
Your website is probably on WordPress.com. Please see our guide on the difference between self hosted WordPress.org vs free WordPress.com blog.
Admin
Giulia Sampogna
Hello,
that´s a really nice post. I am wondering if I change it now will change my past one as well? If yes I would had to redirect all links right?
Thanks a lot
Dan
I’m confused and could use some help.
Specifically, I am developing an ecommerce site that is composed of mostly PAGES. (NOT using woocommerce or another e-commerce platform, but building out my own gravity form for each product page).
I want the product category to be in ALL my PAGE URL’s, but as you know, wordpress out of the box doesn’t enable assignment of categories and tags to PAGES (wish it did). One alternative would be to use one of the plugins I found that could enable this. The other is to simply use the product category name in the SLUG (part of the permalink I can create on the product page). I could also create a page for each product category and include a gallery showing each product item that belongs to that category with a link to its specific page, or, I could skip the product category page altogether and assign the „#“ in front of the category name when I create the menu, so that the category name would appear but not be an active link to any category page. I could get involved in creating a „custom post type“ for my product pages which would enable them to be assigned a category and tag, much like the woocommerce product „pages“ are setup (don’t know much about how to do that but would like to), etc.
Also, the permalink settings effect URL’s for both pages and posts…correct ?
REALLY appreciate a followup post from you that deep dives into helping people like me who are using wordpress for their ecommerce site but not using one of the out of the box ecommerce platforms.
thankyou