Hi jimoe

Welcome to the forums. I think the best way to explain this is by way of an example. If you go and take a look at the b2evo screenshots blog:

http://b2evolution.net/about/screenshots/

You will see that it is a normal photo type blog with a list of categories down the right.

If you click on one of those categories, say 'Plugin management' you will see that the url for that category is:

http://b2evolution.net/about/screenshots/plugin-management/

The clean url for that category is plugin-management. A clean url is something that should be unique and allows you to provide 'nicer' urls for your categories (if you have specified to use them in your settings). Clean urls can be single words or multiple. They don't allow spaces so I recommend following the same format as above with a - between the words for multi-word clean urls.

I guess most people use the same words in their clean urls as the name of the category itself (as above) but this need not be the case.

Hope that answers your question :)

L

If I create a category named "General" (better than Miscellaneous, really), I would also enter the URL as "General" as well (in the simplest case)?

The URL does not need to be fully qualified, does it? That is, it does not need to be "http://blog.example.com/blog256.php/General"?

jimoe wrote:

If I create a category named "General" (better than Miscellaneous, really), I would also enter the URL as "General" as well (in the simplest case)?

Yes, although I would use a lowercase "general".

jimoe wrote:

The URL does not need to be fully qualified, does it? That is, it does not need to be "http://blog.example.com/blog256.php/General"?

You are right, it does not. "general" is sufficient.

Thank you.