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How do I include the category name in the URL and have that link work? I have a blog channel with a category called 'news'. I need the url to be - www.mysite/news/blog-post-heading. I currently am just shoving the category name in there and I need to know how to build up the link, because if you click on the link it goes to a error page because its trying to use the a template group name and I have no template group called news. 

 {exp:channel:entries 
      channel="blog" 
      orderby="date" 
      sort="desc" 
      category_group="3"
      limit="1"}

<h1><a href="/{categories}{category_name}{/categories}/{url_title}/">{title}</a></h1>

Do I make use of segments?

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    Presumably using this method you will have the same blog post served up under different URLs which in turn means you will end up with a duplicate content 'penalty'. Be sure to use the canonical URL meta tag. But more importantly won't this be confusing for visitors? Categories are for sorting and grouping rather than navigation.
    – foamcow
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 9:34
  • Are you using EECMS 2.8?
    – Sobral
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 12:05

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Just checking I've understood your question correctly. Are you waiting to create a link to your blog page which includes the category AND the url title? So your final url would be www.mysite.com/blog/news/blog-post-heading as opposed to what you've stated above www.mysite.com/news/blog-post-heading.

As you've rightly pointed out, what you currently have won't work because EE is looking a news template.

If you could clarify what you're trying to achieve, please.

As a quick help, maybe Zoo Triggers (http://ee-zoo.com/add-ons/triggers/) or Low Search (http://gotolow.com/addons/low-search) could help you out?

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  • Yes, I want it that way: www.mysite.com/blog/news/blog-post-heading
    – ObiWanKobi
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 9:16
  • OK, you may be able to do something with segments and conditionals. Perhaps in your blog/index you could have {if segment_2 != "" AND segment_3 != ""} {embed="blog/post"} {if:else} // normal blog/index stuff here {/if} Then in blog/post you would alter your channel entries tag so that it targets segment_3.
    – Laura Montgomery
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 9:25
  • Oh, and simply change your link above to /blog/{categories}{category_name}{/categories}/{url_title}/
    – Laura Montgomery
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 9:32
  • What about specifying it in the channel entries tag? Like: category_name="{segment_2}" url_title="{segment_3}"
    – ObiWanKobi
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:05
  • I think because you are using the url_title in segment_3 that you won't need the category_name parameter. Really all it is allowing you to do is add keywords into your url (such as for better SEO). However you could probably use segment_2 in a separate query to display similar/related articles.
    – Laura Montgomery
    Commented May 23, 2014 at 10:13
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Okay so perhaps I was being silly about how I do this and so I'm opting to make a news channel and just adding those posts there. @foamcow is right in sayin categories aren't for navigation.

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