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

Question

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?

Answer 1

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/