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I can’t seem to search for the right thing on this topic, because nothing’s coming up for what I think must be a common question.

I have a products weblog that goes 3 levels deep (much like the great Custom Category article here), but my first /shop/ page shows all categories AND a single, random product to entice visitors.

I’m not sure how to link this without it knowing what category it belongs to. So basically I want a product living at

/products/

to link to its product page at

/products/category/url-title/

But it’s not already being nested in it’s category segment, though. How can I make this happen?

Edited for clarity, hopefully.

It looks like you might need to format the product link something like this

<a href="http://{url_title_path=products/category}">{title}</a>

Well, I don’t know what the category is going to be, though. The product that pops up randomly on the main /products/ page could be from 1 of 5 different categories, so I need the link to “know” this. Meaning the link could end up being:

/products/widgets/smart-widget/

or

/products/hats/red-hat/

or even

/products/cups/comfy-mug/

It will just depend on the category the product is a part of. Category as you have it doesn’t know what that product’s category is.

Assuming you use one category per product.

<a href="http://{url_title_path=products/{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}}">{title}</a>

That didn’t quite work, but I finally got this to work. Makes sense to me now.

<a href="http://{categories}{category_url_title}{/categories}/{url_title}/">{title}</a>

Earlier in the day I had the following, which doesn’t work. Obviously using the pairing tags within the href and immediately closing it did the trick above.

{categories}
<a href="http://{category_url_title}/{url_title}/">{title}</a>
{/categories}

Glad you found a work around. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.