OK, I was all excited to see that version 1.2 allows you to use categories in the links. For example, instead of http://www.something.com/index.php/C1 you could have http://www.something.com/index.php/category/news. But then I saw that one of the requirements is that the category names have to use only alpha-numeric text. Since I have spaces and punctuation in my category names, I can’t use this feature. So, I’d like to be able to specify a Category Title for each category, just like how you can specify a Title and a URL Title. For example, if my category name was “News, Gossip, and More!”, I could type in “news_gossip_and_more” for the category title, and the category title would be used in the link instead.

I have a similar problem with the spaces and stuff, whatever is used to make url-titles would be perfect for this.

Also if you have two categories with the same name, in the same weblog, then the current setup doesn’t work. You would have to have a category title.

And I will be adding categories in Korean 한국말로 is obviously not alphanumeric.

Sorry—nothing to add.
I just want to be notified when someone responds w/ a solution.
thx,
j

You could add a little scripting to your template to do this:

Eh, it’s the URL that I would like to have the proper category name, without having to use a workaround like that.  Not the heading, really. 

FYI: Here’s a solution that works for me…

1. If you have a two-word category like “Breaking News”, re-name it in the category admin to “Breaking-News”.

2. Turn PHP “on” for your template and set the Parsing Stage to “output”.

3. Add the following code to template where you would like the category name to appear without the hyphen:

Your category_name will now print as “Breaking News” - but the URL will retain the hyphen.

joe

I only have problems with the non-alphanumeric characters in my category titles—apparently the multiple-word category titles work fine, with underscores in place of spaces (new build?).

I could drop the non-alphanumeric character on one of my category titles, but I use a question mark on another one and I really want to keep it.

The idea of stripping out non-alphanumerics entirely, as in the URL titles of individual posts, seems like the best bet to me.

Just like to add my voice to this FR. Neither of the workarounds really satisfy, for various reasons. I’d like to have category_title field like TextPattern for this.