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I've inherited a mess of a Wordpress site and I'm hoping someone can offer a solution without using custom post-types & custom taxonomies.

Example of my issue, I have the following categories set up:

topic1
topic2
topic3
news
guides

None of them are child/sub categories. Now my posts are set with both a topic category and a news/guides category

e.g.
topic1 + news
topic2 + news
topic1 + guides

I need a page that shows all of the posts with the categories 'topic1' AND 'news' and ideally the url should use both categories 

e.g. //mysite.com/topic1/news

Does anyone know if this is this possible at all without resorting to using custom post-types, custom taxonomies, or additional tags?

Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide.

Matt

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You shouldn't need to do any of that.

When you set up a category in the backend of a WordPress website, the archive is normally created/taken care of for you. So if you create a category called 'Massive Dogs' and you got to "/massive-dogs' after you have created a post in that category (and the slug is the same), you should see your post item.

The URL would only reflect that if you had parent/child categories.

http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-add-categories-and-subcategories-to-wordpress/

Anything beyond that would likely need you to create some custom functionality in the function file and/or create some custom templates.

It would be interesting to know why you would need that kind of URL structure. Surely anything in 'topic1/news' would just be news?

I hope this helps but if not, comment and I'll be happy to help further :)

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  • Downvote with no explanation?
    – Kurtis Rogers
    Nov 27, 2017 at 16:26
  • Thanks for taking the time to reply (the downvote wasn't me by the way) however I'm afraid this only partially answers my question in as much as you say: Anything beyond that would likely need you to create some custom functionality in the function file and/or create some custom templates. I know how Wordpress taxonomy works and the setup I've inherited does as I expect it too. It's just that a post in a particular topic may be either a 'news' item or a 'guide' item. I don't want to create child 'news' & 'guide' categories for each topic though.
    – Matt Smith
    Dec 5, 2017 at 13:25
  • Which suggests I'll likely either have to live with what I've got, or have to create custom post types (which I don't really want to do as there's a lot of posts already)
    – Matt Smith
    Dec 5, 2017 at 13:28

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