Global Channel Preferences¶

Use Category URL Titles In Links?¶

This preference lets the name of each category appear in your URLs rather than the numeric indicator (e.g. “/C12/”) on pages such as your Category Archive page.

In order to use this feature, you must use the channel= parameter in the following tags, and if you specify multiple channels, they must share identical Category Groups:

• {exp:channel:categories}
• {exp:channel:category_heading}
• {exp:channel:entries}

Category URL Indicator¶

If you turn on the preceding preference, you must designate a special “indicator” word, which will be used in the URL whenever a category is intended. For example, URLs that indicate a category normally use the ID number like this by default:

http://example.com/index.php/site/C12/

If you instead specify that the category URL title should be used, the URL will look like this:

http://example.com/index.php/site/category/blogging/

In this example, the indicator is “category” and the category URL title is “blogging”.

The “indicator” word that you choose will become a ‘reserved’ word, which means that it cannot be used for Template Group or Template names.

Auto-Assign Category Parents¶

If this option is set to “yes”, when new entries that contain category assignments are submitted, the “parent” category of any sub-categories will be automatically assigned. If set to “no”, the entry will only be assigned to the child category.

Clear all caches when new entries are posted?¶

You can determine whether your caches will be cleared when you post an entry. If set to “no”, the new entry will not appear on your site until any cache expires.

Cache Dynamic Channel Queries?¶

This feature will improve the speed at which your channel pages load by caching queries that are normally executed dynamically.

Word Separator for URL Titles¶

When creating an entry in the PUBLISH page, if you do not manually enter a “URL Title” then the system will automatically create one based on the entry Title. This preference determines whether underscore characters (_) or dashes (-) should be used when automatically creating the URL Title.