Using arbitrary paths in page urls

I have been looking all over the place and maybe I’m just searching the wrong terminology but I need to be able to allow an end user (completely non-technical) to add an arbitrary path to the url structure of a WordPress page.

Essentially I need a simple way to allow the end user to create a page titled blah and put it in the path /something/here/blah. I tried to use a plugin that allowed category association with a page but it didn’t setup the permalink route with the category/subcategory structure like I expected.

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I have seen a number of posts about adding code to insert rewrites, etc but I need these paths to be able to be created at the whim of a non-technical user. I do not have ton of experience with WordPress but I’m a veteran PHP developer so I’m willing to write a plugin (or extend one) but I just need a bit of direction on how best to approach this problem within the WordPress architecture.

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