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Hi all,

I’m still very new to EE but the concept of nested categories is something I don’t get. What exactly is the purpose of nesting categories? I was thinking this would let me access entries in the following format:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/template/category-indicator/">http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/template/category-indicator/</a>
parent-category/child-category/entry-name

However, this does not seem to work. I can only access them using a url like:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php">http://www.example.com/index.php</a>
/weblog/template/entry-name

Also showing a category using a nested url does not work:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/">http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/</a>
template/category-indicator/parent-category/child-category/

unless I write it like:

<a href="http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/">http://www.example.com/index.php/weblog/</a>
template/category-indicator/parent-category/category-indicator/child-category/

Is it something I do wrong? I’m trying to mimic a hierarchical (static) site structure, where urls are in the form of

<a href="http://www.example.com/maincategory/subcategory/sub-subcategory/page.html">http://www.example.com/maincategory/subcategory/sub-subcategory/page.html</a>

Thanks!

Nested categories are not reflected in the URL structure - they’re really for display purposes only.

URL structure overview:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/general/urls.html

Category URL preferences:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/cp/admin/weblog_administration/global_weblog_preferences.html

Nested categories are not reflected in the URL structure - they’re really for display purposes only.

URL structure overview:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/general/urls.html

Category URL preferences:
http://expressionengine.com/docs/cp/admin/weblog_administration/global_weblog_preferences.html

Thanks, clears up a lot 😉

Still one question. Why would you want to nest categories when there effectively is no hierarchical structure between them (that can be used within tags)?

Nested categories can still be handy for displaying categories, and I’ve also used them (with the odd plug-in here and there) for building navigation/breadcrumb trails.