Title: sCategory Permalink
Author: Dmytro Shteflyuk
Published: <strong>09 Avril 2007</strong>
Last modified: 30 Luj 2009

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# sCategory Permalink

 By [Dmytro Shteflyuk](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kpumuk/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/scategory-permalink.0.6.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/#installation)
 * [Development](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/scategory-permalink/)

## Description

Permalink option of WordPress `%category%` has one great limitation –
 when this
option is selected, WordPress uses category with lowest ID for permalink generation.
This plugin is intented to bypass WordPress permalinks limitation and allows you
to select category for permalink generation.

#### Support

If you have any suggestions, found a bug, or just wanted to say “thank
 you”,– feel
free to email me [kpumuk@kpumuk.info](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/kpumuk@kpumuk.info?output_format=md).
Promise, I will answer every email I received.

If you want to contribute your code, see the _Development_ section under
 the _Other
Notes_ tab.

### Development

Sources of this plugin are available both in SVN and Git:

 * [WordPress SVN repository](http://svn.wp-plugins.org/scategory-permalink/)
 * [GitHub](http://github.com/kpumuk/scategory-permalink/)

Feel free to check them out, make your changes and send me patches.
 Promise, I 
will apply every patch (of course, if they add a value to the product). Email for
patches, suggestions, or bug reports: [kpumuk@kpumuk.info](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/kpumuk@kpumuk.info?output_format=md).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Write Post page with sCategory Permalink enabled.

## Installation

 1. Download and unpack plugin files to the `wp-content/plugins/scategory-permalink`
    
    directory.
 2. Enable **sCategory Permalink** plugin on your _Plugins_ page in
     _Site Admin_.
 3. Go to the _Options/Permalinks_ page in _Site Admin_ and use `%scategory%`
     option
    in _Custom text_ field (you can look [here](https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
    for other options). For example you could use `/%scategory%/%postname%/`.
 4. When you move your mouse over category in _Categories_ box the
     **Primary** link
    will appear on the right. Click it to set the category which will be used to generate
    permalinks. It will be highlighted with bold.

#### Upgrade

 1. Download and unpack plugin files to the `wp-content/plugins/scategory-permalink`
    
    directory.
 2. Go to the _Options/Permalinks_ page in _Site Admin_ and click _Save Changes_
     to
    re-generate permalinks.
 3. When you move your mouse over category in _Categories_ box the
     **Primary** link
    will appear on the right. Click it to set the category which will be used to generate
    permalinks. It will be highlighted with bold.

## FAQ

  Every page on my site respond with 404 error

Go to _Options/Permalinks_ page in _Site Admin_ and click _Save Changes_ to
 re-
generate permalinks.

  First category is used for permalinks instead of selected

Check the permalinks structure you used (_Options/Permalinks_). You should
 use `%
scategory%` instead of `%category%`.

  I love this plugin. How to do a favor to the author?

Just vote for this plugin on [WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/scategory-permalink/).

And thank you!

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“sCategory Permalink” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Dmytro Shteflyuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kpumuk/)

[Translate “sCategory Permalink” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/scategory-permalink)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/scategory-permalink/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/scategory-permalink/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/scategory-permalink/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/scategory-permalink/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.6.2 (July 30, 2009)

 * Nothing really changed. Just to force WordPress to update version.

#### 0.6.1 (July 30, 2009)

 * Fixed blank page when post edit page requested.
 * Fixed “Primary” link appear on all sub-categories, when category selected.

#### 0.6.0 (July 30, 2009)

 * Client side script completely rewritten. New visual look and better
    usability(
   thanks to [Nikolay Kolev](http://nikolay.com/)).

#### 0.5.0 (July 28, 2009)

 * Fixed problem with Subscribe2 plugin (thanks to [Paul Wagorn](http://www.synthgear.com/)).
 * Performance improvement (update meta tags only once per save).

#### 0.4.0 (July 21, 2009)

 * Fixed not-found bug when `/%year%/%scategory%/%posttitle%` permalink used.
 * Fixed not-found bug when paged comments enabled (`/comment-page-N`).
 * JavaScript rewritten using jQuery library.

#### 0.3.0 (April 4, 2008)

 * Fixed bug when pages was not found in WordPress 2.5.

#### v0.2.2 (May 20, 2007)

 * Sometimes radio buttons was not displayed (thanks to Vince Caughley and [Sam Keen](http://codeelements.com/)).

## Meta

 *  Version **0.6.2**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.7.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.8.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/)
 * Tags
 * [category](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[permalink](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permalink/)
   [permalinks](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/permalinks/)[seo](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://lmo.wordpress.org/plugins/scategory-permalink/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Dmytro Shteflyuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kpumuk/)

## Support

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