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I want to create an URL something like this:

http://www.site-name.com/template-group/template/category-name/article-name/

I have a bunch of categories, and articles are in different categories. What I want to accomplish in my URL is for every article URL to have the designated category shown in the URL.

Is it somehow possible?

Yes, but I wouldn’t recommend it.  If you deviate from the standard url structure, it tends to have a lot of unexpected consequences- it can jam you up on search result links, commenting, next/prev navigation.  I’d advise against it.

If you really NEED the category in there (and I’ve had situations where I did)- then it’s better to tack the category onto the end of the url.  That way, EE will still react to the url as if it’s a single entry page- with the url_title in the third segment.  The forth segment- which holds the category- it will ignore.  Unless you pull it out with segments.

How you get the category in the url will depends on where/how you’re linking.  But if it’s in the weblog tag, no reason you can’t tack it onto the url using the categories variable pair:

{exp:weblog:entries}
<a href="http://{comment_url_title_auto_path}{categories}{category_name}{/categories}">{title}</a>
etc…

Really better if you have access to the category url title.  But that’s the basic logic.

I tried putting the category name onto the end of the URL and it basically works. The problem now is that I need some articles that are connected with 2 categories so my URL looks like this

/articles/article/beyonce-wears-100k-leggings/gossip-and-rantsbeyonce-knowles

I tried restricting to show only the first type of category but it does not work?

Here is my code:

<a href="{title_permalink="group="not 2">

Or…

<a href="{title_permalink="group="1">

The both ways don’t work, is there a third way of solution?

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