Multiple Parent Category URLs

Question

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

Answer 1

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 :)