WooCommerce- How to remove product & product-category from urls? (ok)

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// Remove slug product-category
add_filter('request', function( $vars ) {
  global $wpdb;
  if( ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) || ! empty( $vars['category_name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['attachment'] ) ) {
    $slug = ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) ? $vars['pagename'] : ( ! empty( $vars['name'] ) ? $vars['name'] : ( !empty( $vars['category_name'] ) ? $vars['category_name'] : $vars['attachment'] ) );
    $exists = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT t.term_id FROM $wpdb->terms t LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'product_cat' AND t.slug = %s" ,array( $slug )));
    if( $exists ){
      $old_vars = $vars;
      $vars = array('product_cat' => $slug );
      if ( !empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) || !empty( $old_vars['page'] ) ) $vars['paged'] = ! empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) ? $old_vars['paged'] : $old_vars['page'];
      if ( !empty( $old_vars['orderby'] ) ) $vars['orderby'] = $old_vars['orderby'];
      if ( !empty( $old_vars['order'] ) ) $vars['order'] = $old_vars['order'];    
    }
  }
  return $vars;
});

WooCommerce- How to remove product & product-category from urls?

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I'm using WooCommerce on a WordPress and it adds product & product-category to the

URLs.

http://dev.unwaveringmedia.com/8dim/product-category/all-party-supplies/ http://dev.unwaveringmedia.com/8dim/product/14-snowman-serving-tray/

I need to remove 'product' & 'product-category' from the URLs. Is there any way to modify the permalinks and remove them?

• wordpress

• woocommerce

ShareEditFollowFlagedited Sep 7, 2020 at 6:55General Grievance4,3312424 gold badges2828 silver badges4343 bronze badgesasked Apr 17, 2017 at 7:30Bhagya Shree9111 gold badge11 silver badge33 bronze badges

• Have you checked settings ->permalinks? – Yahya Hussein Apr 17, 2017 at 7:35

• @Bhagya Shree it's not recommended, read this docs.woocommerce.com/document/… – kebir Apr 17, 2017 at 8:03

• you should use of woocommerce seo perfect plugin because it's good for seo and create best url for you I use most way to remove category but I saw there are dot in canonical so i decided to use this plugin cheers – amh Sep 6, 2020 at 14:05

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Yes. But Please read this article first https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/removing-product-product-category-or-shop-from-the-urls/

You can change this by:

1. you can change the permalinks in Settings > permalink > optional > Product category base= ./ (type ./ in Product category base).

2. Be sure that you don’t have any page, post or attachment with the same name (slug) as the category page or they will collide and the code won’t work.

3. Install and activate the plugin below: (For more info please see https://timersys.com/remove-product-category-slug-woocommerce/)

`

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Remove product-category slug
Plugin URI: https://timersys.com/
Description: Check if url slug matches a woocommerce product category and use it instead
Version: 0.1
Author: Timersys
License: GPLv2 or later
*/
add_filter('request', function( $vars ) {
    global $wpdb;
    if( ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) || ! empty( $vars['category_name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['attachment'] ) ) {
        $slug = ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) ? $vars['pagename'] : ( ! empty( $vars['name'] ) ? $vars['name'] : ( !empty( $vars['category_name'] ) ? $vars['category_name'] : $vars['attachment'] ) );
        $exists = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT t.term_id FROM $wpdb->terms t LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'product_cat' AND t.slug = %s" ,array( $slug )));
        if( $exists ){
            $old_vars = $vars;
            $vars = array('product_cat' => $slug );
            if ( !empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) || !empty( $old_vars['page'] ) )
                $vars['paged'] = ! empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) ? $old_vars['paged'] : $old_vars['page'];
            if ( !empty( $old_vars['orderby'] ) )
                    $vars['orderby'] = $old_vars['orderby'];
                if ( !empty( $old_vars['order'] ) )
                    $vars['order'] = $old_vars['order'];    
        }
    }
    return $vars;
});`

For more info please see https://timersys.com/remove-product-category-slug-woocommerce/

ShareEditFollowFlaganswered May 14, 2017 at 11:21Shehroz Altaf60811 gold badge1010 silver badges1616 bronze badges

• 1Worked for me on latest Woocommerce 3.3.3. Thanks – Dr.MTR Mar 3, 2018 at 21:29

• how to install this plugin? – ccdiego5 Mar 25, 2019 at 12:57

• The class members should be properly isolated from the string: "SELECT t.term_id FROM " . $wpdb->terms . "... – Daniel W. Nov 23, 2019 at 17:36

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Noone mentioned how to remove /product/ so here it goes:

function na_remove_slug( $post_link, $post, $leavename ) {
    if ( 'product' != $post->post_type || 'publish' != $post->post_status ) {
        return $post_link;
    }
    $post_link = str_replace( '/product/', '/', $post_link );
    return $post_link;
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'na_remove_slug', 10, 3 );

function change_slug_struct( $query ) {

    if ( ! $query->is_main_query() || 2 != count( $query->query ) || ! isset( $query->query['page'] ) ) {
        return;
    }

    if ( ! empty( $query->query['name'] ) ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'product', 'page' ) );
    } elseif ( ! empty( $query->query['pagename'] ) && false === strpos( $query->query['pagename'], '/' ) ) {
        $query->set( 'post_type', array( 'post', 'product', 'page' ) );

        // We also need to set the name query var since redirect_guess_404_permalink() relies on it.
        $query->set( 'name', $query->query['pagename'] );
    }
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'change_slug_struct', 99 );

I've added priority since some themes/plugins can conflict with this rule, which happened to me.

ShareEditFollowFlaganswered Sep 5, 2021 at 7:13Goran Jakovljevic2,49311 gold badge2626 silver badges2424 bronze badges

• This is a simple solution but it doesn't work if there is %product_cat% in the product base and there are multiple categories in the URL, for example: /parent-cat/child-cat/product-slug/ – Hasan Akhtar Oct 23, 2021 at 7:30

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It wasn't working with pagination for me. Here is full code that's working.

add_filter('request', function( $vars ) {
global $wpdb;

if( ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) || ! empty( $vars['category_name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['attachment'] ) ) {
    $slug = ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) ? $vars['pagename'] : ( ! empty( $vars['name'] ) ? $vars['name'] : ( !empty( $vars['category_name'] ) ? $vars['category_name'] : $vars['attachment'] ) );
    $exists = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT t.term_id FROM $wpdb->terms t LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'product_cat' AND t.slug = %s" ,array( $slug )));
    if( $exists ){
        $old_vars = $vars;
        $vars = array('product_cat' => $slug );
        if ( !empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) || !empty( $old_vars['page'] ) )
            $vars['paged'] = ! empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) ? $old_vars['paged'] : $old_vars['page'];
        if ( !empty( $old_vars['orderby'] ) )
            $vars['orderby'] = $old_vars['orderby'];
        if ( !empty( $old_vars['order'] ) )
            $vars['order'] = $old_vars['order'];
    }
}
return $vars;
});

This will add new rewrite rule that will paginate query.

add_action('init', 'do_rewrite');
function do_rewrite(){
add_rewrite_rule( '[^/]+/([^/]+)/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$', 'index.php?attachment=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]', 'top' );
add_filter( 'query_vars', function( $vars ){
    $vars[] = 'attachment';
    $vars[] = 'paged';
    return $vars;
} );}

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Using Shehroz Altaf's trick does the job just (almost) perfectly.

Adding the following between the $slug and $exists declarations will make it work with sub-categories too.

$slug_array = explode( '/', $slug );
$slug = array_values(array_slice($slug_array, -1))[0];

ShareEditFollowFlagedited Mar 19, 2019 at 11:11AS Mackay2,79399 gold badges1818 silver badges2525 bronze badgesanswered Mar 19, 2019 at 10:52Manu Garrido1144 bronze badgesAdd a comment1

You can use the following filter: woocommerce_register_post_type_product

Here is an example if you only want to remove /product/ but keep the category.

add_filter( 'woocommerce_register_post_type_product', function($var) {
    $var['rewrite'] = str_replace('/product/', '/', $var['rewrite']);
    return $var;
});

Then make sure to flush the permalinks by updating the permalinks in the Admin panel.

Keep in mind you will still see '/product/' in the permalink structure in the Admin Panel Permalinks, but it will not have an affect.

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• How to remove the product name and only have the product id? – ZeroCode Dec 28, 2020 at 6:44

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Other solutions all failed for me, after some trial and error I came up with this solution...

1. Install free 'WOO CATEGORY BASE PERMALINK FIXER' plugin from https://masterns-studio.com/code-factory/wordpress-plugin/woo-category-base/

2. Set Product Category Base Permalinks to : shop

3. Set Custom Base Permalinks to : /shop/%product_cat%/

URLs will then look like

http://www.example.com/shop/category/sub-category/product

Seems to work fine for pagination and sub categories