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Cómo incluir categoría y subcategoría en las URL de WordPress

Muchas guías de SEO WordPress dicen permalinks simples son los mejores. Pero después de trabajar con muchos sitios web, hemos descubierto que no siempre es así.

A veces, sobre todo en sitios grandes, es mejor tener URL que muestren dónde está, como ‘tutienda.com/electronica/smartphones/iphone’. Esta estructura clara puede facilitar el uso de tu sitio.

Si eres nuevo en WordPress, puede que te estés preguntando cómo establecer este tipo de estructura de enlaces permanentes para tu sitio. En esta guía, le mostraremos cómo añadir categorías y subcategorías a sus URL. Te explicaremos por qué quieres hacerlo, cómo hacerlo de forma segura y qué debes tener en cuenta.

How to Include Category and Subcategory in WordPress URLs

Cuándo incluir la categoría y la subcategoría en las URL de WordPress

Algunos sitios web de WordPress utilizan categorías y subcategorías en sus URL cuando tienen mucho contenido en sus sitios web y quieren organizarlos mejor. En WPBeginner, utilizamos esta estrategia para que nuestro sitio sea más fácil de navegar para nuestros lectores.

Por ejemplo:

https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/7-best-wordpress-backup-plugins-compared-pros-and-cons/

Para las tiendas en línea, incluir categorías y subcategorías en las URL proporciona una indicación visual acerca del contenido al que los clientes están a punto de acceder, lo que puede mejorar la experiencia del usuario.

Por ejemplo, una URL como onlinestore.com/books/fiction/thriller indica que el usuario está navegando a una subcategoría específica dentro de una categoría más amplia en el sitio web de WordPress.

Incluir categorías y subcategorías en las URL también puede ayudar a los motores de búsqueda a entender la estructura de su sitio. La URL coincidiría con la navegación de migas de pan de su sitio e incluiría más palabras clave y texto, lo que haría que su sitio fuera más favorable para el SEO.

Para obtener más información acerca de las categorías, puede leer nuestras guías sobre taxonomías de WordPress y categorías frente a etiquetas: las mejores prácticas SEO para clasificar su contenido.

Si está usando la estructura URL por defecto de WordPress, entonces sus categorías y subcategorías no están incluidas en las URLs de las entradas. Así que, veamos cómo añadir fácilmente categorías y subcategorías en las URLs de WordPress.

Cómo añadir fácilmente categoría y subcategoría en las URL de entradas de WordPress

Nota: No se recomienda cambiar los enlaces permanentes cuando su sitio de WordPress ha sido en vivo por un tiempo (es decir, más de seis meses). De lo contrario, puede perder su posicionamiento en los motores de búsqueda.

Si debe cambiar su estructura de enlaces permanentes, le sugerimos que haga una copia de seguridad de su sitio web por si se producen errores y cree redireccionamientos desde las URL antiguas a las nuevas.

En primer lugar, debe visitar la página Ajustes ” Enlaces permanentes en su escritorio de administrador de WordPress. Allí, tienes que hacer clic en la opción “Estructura personalizada” en el área de ajustes comunes.

Adding category to WordPress post URLs

A continuación, debe añadir /%category%/%postname%/ en el campo situado junto a Estructura personalizada.

A continuación, no olvide hacer clic en el botón “Guardar cambios” para establecer sus ajustes personalizados de la estructura de enlaces permanentes.

¡Eso es todo!

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WordPress empezará a añadir categorías y categorías hijas en las URLs de WordPress. Puede ver los ajustes personalizados de enlaces permanentes en acción creando una nueva entrada o editando una existente.

Sólo tiene que asignar a esa entrada una categoría (y una subcategoría, si las utiliza) en la barra lateral y hacer clic en el botón “Actualizar”.

WordPress URL with category and subcategory

Observará que el nombre de la categoría y el nombre de la subcategoría se incluyen en el enlace permanente de la entrada.

¿Cómo sería la URL si utilizara varias categorías o subcategorías?

Imaginemos que clasifica las entradas de su blog de WordPress en varias categorías o subcategorías.

WordPress solo incluirá una categoría y una categoría hija en la URL. Si no ha elegido una subcategoría, solo mostrará una categoría principal.

WordPress elige la categoría por orden alfabético. Por ejemplo, si usted archiva una entrada usando las categorías ‘Apple’ y ‘Tecnología’, entonces WordPress incluirá ‘apple’ en la URL porque viene primero en orden alfabético:

http://example.com/apple/article-title-here/

Si archivas una entrada en ‘Apple’ y una subcategoría debajo llamada ‘Tecnología’, entonces incluirá ambas en la URL:

https://example.com/apple/technology/article-title-here/

Si ha seleccionado una subcategoría pero no ha seleccionado específicamente una categoría principal, WordPress incluirá la categoría principal en la URL.

Otro escenario es cuando tienes una categoría padre, una subcategoría y una sub-subcategoría. WordPress incluirá los tres en el permalink de WordPress:

https://example.com/apple/technology/events/article-title-here/

Para más información acerca de enlaces permanentes, puede comprobar las siguientes guías de WordPress:

Esperamos que este artículo te haya ayudado a aprender cómo incluir una categoría y una subcategoría en las URL de WordPress. Puede que también quieras ver nuestro artículo sobre cómo cambiar el prefijo base de la categoría en WordPress y nuestra guía para principiantes sobre cómo crear taxonomías personalizadas en WordPress.

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  1. Syed Balkhi

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  2. 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.

  3. 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.

      Administrador

  4. Brendon

    This seems to break any products that do not use a sub category at all.

  5. 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.

      Administrador

  6. 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/

      Administrador

  7. 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

      Administrador

  8. Lori S.

    So for pages, it would just skip over the /%category%/ and maintain the original post name?

    • WPBeginner Support

      Yes :)

      Administrador

  9. 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.

      Administrador

  10. 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 :)

      Administrador

    • 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

  11. 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

      Administrador

  12. Ben

    So how do i redirect from /%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname without the redirection plugin.

  13. 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.

      Administrador

  14. 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.

      Administrador

  15. Mlimasolucoes

    Use subcategory as primary category then URL will work

    • WPBeginner Support

      Thank you for sharing that recommendation :)

      Administrador

    • 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,

  16. 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.

      Administrador

  17. Nancy

    Can i Include Category and Subcategory in post URLs without using permalink

  18. 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.

      Administrador

  19. 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?

      Administrador

  20. 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!

  21. 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..

  22. 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!

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Yash chandra verma

    So what will be url if two different parent category are used. Please tell me?

  26. 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?

  27. 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.

  28. 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

  29. 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!

  30. regel

    Hi don’t have “permalink” on my setting. Any option?

  31. 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

  32. 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

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