# Thousands of articles

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/thousands-of-articles/809>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/thousands-of-articles/809 "2019-02-13T09:21:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hapeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Hapeka](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Hapeka)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 9:21am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/thousands-of-articles/809/1 "2019-02-13T09:21:45Z")

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Hi,

I am currently evaluating Hippo CMS for a new project. I have read the documentation and played around with the system, but there is one thing that I don’t know how to solve.  
The URLs for the articles in the system should follow this pattern:  
/{category}/{subcategory}/_any_.html

There will be thousands of articles in each subcategory, so it will be required to create several folders for them in the CMS (e.g. based on the year and month).  
But I do NOT want to include these additional folders in the URLs. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![ard.schrijvers](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/ard.schrijvers/32/309_2.png) [@ard.schrijvers](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/ard.schrijvers)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/thousands-of-articles/809/2 "2019-02-13T09:40:47Z")

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> Hapeka  
> February 13
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently evaluating Hippo CMS for a new project. I have read the documentation and played around with the system, but there is one thing that I don’t know how to solve.  
> The URLs for the articles in the system should follow this pattern:  
> /{category}/{subcategory}/any.html
> 
> There will be thousands of articles in each subcategory, so it will be required to create several folders for them in the CMS (e.g. based on the year and month).  
> But I do NOT want to include these additional folders in the URLs. How can I do this?

Is there a specific reason why you dislike folders in the URL? In  
general, a URL that indicates for example which year and month the  
article was in is a good thing. If you don’t want these in the URL,  
what else? Assume you have articles with name ‘foo’ in two different  
folders. Skipping the folder name in the URL obviously is not possible  
since which article to render then for foo.html…you can’t know which  
one to render.

Quite soms CMSes use instead of a clean URL an identifier in the URL  
or query parameter…that is imho a way uglier URL and doesn’t help  
the visitor nor the crawlers to nicely index your website

Regards Ard

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**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/thousands-of-articles/809/3 "2019-02-13T09:51:53Z")

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You can do this, but please consider @ard.schrijvers comments first. See the following:

> **[Customize Link Processing - BloomReach Experience - Open Source CMS](https://documentation.bloomreach.com/library/concepts/links-and-urls/customize-link-processing.html)**
>
> Open Source Enterprise Content Management