[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #12183: Category Thoughts And Enhancements

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#12183: Category Thoughts And Enhancements
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 Reporter:  markmcwilliams  |       Owner:                
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  General         |     Version:  3.0           
 Severity:  normal          |    Keywords:                
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 I know this topic is brought up time and time again, which must mean
 something really needs to be looked at, but I feel what I'm thinking about
 could quite easily be built and/or expanded upon without much work
 required! :)

 So I'll dive straight in...

  - Parent Category
  - Child Category

 You might be asking what planet I'm on, but hopefully it'll all be
 explained in the following few paragraphs.

 '''Parent Category:''' The idea behind the 'parent' category is a sort of
 placeholder, depending upon the settings you opt for. In otherwords, it's
 either going to be a category which posts can be attached to, ot it'll
 just 'house' posts from the 'child' category or whats known moreso as a
 sub-category!

 Say we have 'parent' category with the name of Blog, it'll have the slug
 of /blog/ and show show at http://www.site.com/blog/ without the
 /category/ prefix many people just love to hate.

 We could have many other 'parent' categories, although they don't always
 need to as as the 'parent' which you'll define in the setup. So in theory,
 you decide if it'll be postable or not.

 ''(Are we all still following?)''

 '''Child Category:''' I'm sure most of you know how a 'child' or rather
 sub-category works, and really this is no different!

 So unlike the 'parent' /blog/ option above, this time we actually have
 postable categories and we'll take WordPress News /wordpress-news/ as an
 example.

 Adding that to the 'parent' blog category placeholder, we'll end up with
 /blog/wordpress-news/ or http://www.site.com/blog/wordpress-news/ being
 the full address still without that horrible /category/ prefix. And
 another example could well be http://www.site.com/blog/freebies/ which
 means the list can go on and on, but you get the picture.

 I guess you could say it's not much different than what we currently have
 at the moment, and with Custom Taxonomies and Custom Post Types, you never
 know, but the main priority here is not having the /category/ prefix!

 The additional features that could be added to the category options would
 only help, in my opinion, become much more of a CMS. Each category doesnt
 always need to be postable, so it'd be great having the option for doing
 this, and making the permalink structure of them look tidy! :)

 In fact, for a little inspiration I'd take a look at WooThemes.com website
 who do this very well with the addition of a plugin (Top Level
 Categories), but then why should something as standard as this come down
 to a plugin, that not everyone knows about?

 I can try and put together a couple of images, showing what options would
 be available to categories, but I'm not promising anything, so I hope you
 all understand what I have been on about?

 What are your particular thoughts, how far should we go with regards to
 improving the category side of things, let the discussion begin.

 ''Similar tickets... #10537 #11279 #11550 (I believe going down the option
 I'm proposing, it could just work out best, and hopefully wouldn't apply
 much to what dd32 said in #10537!)''

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