We are currently upgrading a shop from a hosted solution on big cartel to a wordpress e-commerce solution. So far it is going well, except for the product permalinks. From the products page, all links are in the form /products/uncategorized/*product_name*. How can I get it so that all it stops trying to put a category into the permalink? Sadly, it can't be avoided as there are already a large number of facebook likes, comments and other things that are based on the url being /products/*product_name* and changing to the new format will remove the likes count and comments.
there is a plugin you can use that will strip the category base from the url
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/
e.g.
**myblog.com/products/uncategorized/*product_name**
to
**myblog.com/products/*product_name*
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I have a wordpress installation with a woocommerce and free version of Polylang plugin. With polylang i can translate, for example, pages and posts - it creates a separate page for some kind of content. And it is good!
But in case of translating my products - i don't want to duplicate products! If i have a page like site.com/shop/iphone11, i want to keep only one product page with only one id, but to have a way to show it's name and description in another language when user selects another in language selector. What can be a solution?
At the moment I'm working on SEO for different WooCommerce shops.
I know that Google likes "simple to understand urls ".
In the search results of Google I often see simple urls for product category pages from other shop systems, like: www.exampleshop.com/cars/sport-cars/ferrari. In WooCommerce the url would look like this: www.exampleshop.com/product-category/cars/sport-cars/ferrari.
I think removing the "product-category" slug would definitely be a SEO improvement. On the WooThemes Doc page I read that removing this slug isn't good for WordPress and it would be hard for it to detect whether the site is a normal page or the actual product category.
Recently I saw the plugin "Perfect SEO Url" it says it removes the slugs and the shop will work without duplicate content and old urls get automatically redirected to the new one. What do you think about? Will this plugin cause problems on the WordPress system? Should I remove this slugs to get the best SEO results? My shop is in a branch of industry where every SEO improvement is very important because the competition is pretty strong.
Removing those url's is definitely one of the major improvements in search engine optimization for any online store because then search engines will not take into account the unnecessary words in the link. So, the search for your products will become more precise. I also encountered this problem and tested most of the plugins that were available on the WordPress website. Now I definently can recomend Permalink Manager by Premmerce because it's free, very user friendly and simple plugin.
You can donload it in Wodpress site here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-permalink-manager/
Problem 1:
I'm using WooCommerce on a WordPress and it adds product-category to the URLs.
domain.com/product-category/accessories/dishwashing
I need to remove 'product-category' from the URLs. Is there any way to modify the permalinks and remove them?
Problem 2:
Also, I want to change the permalink for the product.
Current url for product "Active AirClean (SF-AA 50) with TimeStrip" is: http://www.atimiele.co.uk/products/filters/active-airclean-sf-aa-50-with-timestrip/
I have a category structure for the product is:
accessories > floorcare > filters
So the url for the product shoud be
http://www.atimiele.co.uk/accessories/floorcare/filters/active-airclean-sf-aa-30-with-timestrip/
I believe that what you are trying to achieve is not possible with Woocommerce. My colleague tried to change this as well a couple of months ago without any success. If you do want to remove the slug from products+categories you can use a plugin. There are several plugins available, i don't know if I im allowed to post it here, but we used the Perfect seo url plugin for woocommerce. www.perfectseourl.com Although it costs a lot of money, it was a good choice.
Typically it will solve both of your questions. I would recommend not using too many 'subcategories' in your url structure. Try to use maximum 2 subcategories, for SEO reasons. Google will index only 3 levels.
Good luck!
I'm looking for a bit of help as I struggle to create a page that has a list of all of my clients' products. Currently I'm using this URL, which works great (with a caveat): http://tayloryourevent.com/?p=*
(note: on her site, both products and blogs are created as posts, but in separate categories)
As you can see, all the products show up nicely, but also included in the mix are blog posts, which I need to hide from that page.
My real problem is that I'm confused by the /?p=* and what that's doing. Since it's a page being created on the fly, I don't know where to look to get a glimpse behind the scenes.
2 questions:
Where is the /?p=* getting its theme from? Could I copy that theme and edit it to exclude the blog category?
-or-
Could I exclude the blog category with some kind of fancy URL work?
This plugin should be able to exclude blog categories: Simply Exclude
This is the old url of my blog (wp 2.2)
http://myblog.com/category-name/post-name
ex.
http://myblog.com/shoes/i-like-shoes
and Im trying to change it to
http://myblog.com/post-id/post-name.html
ex.
http://myblog.com/717/this-is-my-first-post.html
Im moving my content from wp2.2 to wp2.8 and i want to change all the categories for the current content from whatever it is now to "classic"
The problem of course is that some of my pages have a high page rank and I need to maintain this...
this is becoming a headache for me to figure out.
your help is appreciated!
Go to: http://myblog.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php. Or, if you want to navigate manually :), go to your wordpress dashboard. In the Settings menu go to "Permalinks".
Also see http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks for more detail, especially the fields for making custom permalinks.
Edit
To quote the above,
Using %category% with multiple categories on a post, or %tag%
When you assign multiple categories to a post, only one can show up in the permalink. This will be the lowest numbered category (see Manage Categories). The post will still be accessible through all the categories as normal.
The same thing applies to using the %tag% field in your permalink structure.
So... As long as "classic" is the lowest numbered category you use, that will work as the category name in the permalink.
Your change in structure however will break any external links pointing to your posts so your page rank is going to change as well. Unfortunately you need to choose which is more important: changing to permalinks without category names, or maintaining the pagerank of old posts.
If you just changed category names, you can do a redirect in htaccess for just the category name, IF the rest of your URL structure remains the same, i.e. date and post name.
If you changed more than just a cateory name, or don't want to mess around with htaccess, then use something like the Redirection plugin to easily handle redirects.