=== Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce === Contributors: premmerce, freemius Tags: woocommerce url, remove product, remove product_category, woocommerce permalink, woocommerce, woocommerce seo Requires at least: 4.8 Tested up to: 5.3 Stable tag: 2.2.0 Requires PHP: 5.6 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce allows you to change WooCommerce permalink and remove product and product_category slugs from the URL. == Description == Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce is developed to shortener the current WooCommerce URL and make it more SEO-friendly. According to several industry studies, we acknowledge at least two purposes to utilize Permalink Manager for eCommerce: * **URL Length.** According to [Ahrefs research](https://ahrefs.com/blog/on-page-seo/), there is a clear correlation between the number of characters in a URL and rankings. * **URL Path.** Another well-known fact in the industry is that the closer the page located to the homepage, the more authority boost it may get vs. pages hidden deep down in a site’s architecture. You can read more on top ranking factors on the [Backlinko article](https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors). [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TMpzsSPiMU] = The main plugin features = * Removing **/product-category** base from URL to leave the only category slug. E.g., having site.com/electronics instead of site.com/product-category/electronics * Removing **/product** base from URL to leave the only product slug. E.g., having site.com/iphone-xr instead of site.com/product/iphone-xr * **Automatic adding of the 'rel = canonical'** attribute eliminates duplicate pages in the search results. This is highly recommended to avoid pages duplication in a Google index * Tested with a large number of products (over 100k) * Simple plugin's interface lets you set up everything on one page with just a few clicks. * Compatibility with the foremost WooCommerce plugins, as well as with WPML * Tested with a large number of products (over 100k) = The main competitive advantages of the plugin = * Set up a product URL that consists of a product and category slugs. E.g., site.com/iphones/iphone-xr. Such a descriptive URL helps your SEO visibility as well, according to [Ahrefs study](https://ahrefs.com/blog/on-page-seo/) * You can also set up a full path to the product through its categories hierarchy. E.g., site.com/phones/iphones/iphone-xr * You can choose the main category to generate a product URL * Removing all the prefixes from the URL, leaving just the category or product name * You can choose a main category to generate a product URL. = Additional features available in Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce Premium only: = [Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce Premium](https://premmerce.com/woocommerce-permalink-manager/) * **Remove the base from the product tags URL**. E.g., site.com/best-deals instead of site.com/product-tag/best-deals * **Automatic creation of 301 redirects** for duplicated pages. It's extremely important in case you don't wanna lose old structure URLs weight in Google ranking * Premium support = DEMO = You can check how it works on the Storefront theme here: . Or on the SalesZone theme: . Plus, you can create your demo-store and test this plugin together with [Premmerce Premium](https://premmerce.com/features/) and all other Premmerce plugins and themes developed by our team available here: [Premmerce WooCommerce Demo](https://premmerce.com/premmerce-woocommerce-demo/). = This plugin is 100% compatible with = * base WooCommerce functionality * Yoast SEO * WPML WooCommerce Multilingual & Polylang plugins * all the Premmerce plugins == Screenshots == 1. Ahrefs research - Dependence between the number of characters in URL & Google ranking 2. The plugin settings 3. Url example 4. Number of characters in URL (median) == Frequently Asked Questions == = Does the plugin affect the overall response rate of an online store? = We have tested how the plugin works with the basic WooCommerce kit and the standard storefront theme and haven’t noticed any influence on the response rate of the store. = Does the plugin create link duplicates? Does it affect SEO? = The plugin works perfectly with the Yoast SEO plugin installed. No link duplicates are generated. All similar URLs are automatically tagged as canonical in accordance with the search engines’ recommendations. = Documentation = Full documentation is available here: [Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce](https://premmerce.com/woocommerce-permalink-manager-remove-shop-product-product-category-url/) = Installation Instructions = Go to Plugins -> Add New section from your admin account and search for Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce. You can also install this plugin manually: * Download the plugin’s ZIP archive and unzip it. * Copy the unzipped permalink-manager folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory. * Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress == Changelog == = 1.0 = Release Date: July 24, 2017 * Initial release = 1.0.1 = Release Date: Sep 26, 2017 * Fixed a bug with wrong translation domain * Updated FileManager = 1.1 = Release Date: Oct 31, 2017 * Added premmerce SDK * Added freemius SDK * Added php 5.6 support * Added WooCommerce version check annotations * Fixed behavior with unresolved plugin dependencies * Fixed bug when domain has same name as url prefix * Fixed bug with plain settings * Fixed bug with rewrite rules after plugin install = 1.1.1 = Release Date: Nov 20, 2017 * Added WordPress 4.9 support * Added WooCommerce 3.2.4 support = 1.1.2 = Release Date: Dec 06, 2017 * Fixed product comments pagination * Added Premmerce icon to menu * Added Premmerce version check * Added WordPress 4.9.1 support * Added WooCommerce 3.2.5 support = 1.1.3 = Release Date: Jan 24, 2018 * Updated freemius sdk * Fixed the dependency check on multisite = 1.1.4 = Release Date: Feb 02, 2018 * Added WooCommerce 3.3.0 support * Updated translations = 2.0 = Release Date: Apr 19, 2018 * Fixed product comments pagination * Fixed WPML term link * Fixed private product link * Fixed product hierarchical permalink * Updated settings interface * Added "YOAST" primary category * Added canonicals * Added remove tag base to premium version * Added redirects to premium version = 2.0.1 = Release Date: May 18, 2018 * Fixed payment redirect * Fixed undefined index when product has no category = 2.1 = Release Date: Jun 22, 2018 * Fixed user trailing slash * Fixed plugin updater scripts * Added WooCommerce 3.4 support * Added AMP support * Removed freemius menu subitems * Updated premmerce SDK = 2.1.1 = Release Date: Jul 31, 2018 * Fixed cyrillic slugs * Fixed WPML language url trailing slash * Fixed AMP redirects * Fixed tag permalinks updates = 2.1.2 = Release Date: Aug 2, 2018 * Fixed upgrade page = 2.1.3 = Release Date: Nov 14, 2018 * Updated freemius version to 2.1.3 * Added WooCommerce 3.5 support = 2.1.4 = Release Date: Nov 27, 2018 * Fixed updater = 2.1.5 = Release Date: Nov 29, 2018 * Fixed updater = 2.1.6 = Release Date: Dec 20, 2018 * Fixed bug with cyrillic symbols in product slug * Updated freemius version = 2.1.7 = Release Date: Mar 1, 2019 * Security fix = 2.1.8 = Release Date: Mar 12, 2019 * Fixed category slug translated with WPML = 2.1.9 = Release Date: Apr 22, 2019 * Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.6 = 2.1.10 = Release Date: May 2, 2019 * Fix canonical redirect from product with non published status = 2.1.11 = Release Date: Jun 24, 2019 * Update Freemius to 2.3.0 * Update Premmerce SDK to 2.1 = 2.1.12 = Release Date: Sep 12, 2019 * Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.7 = 2.1.13 = Release Date: Feb 20, 2020 * Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.9 * Updated WordPress compatibility version to 5.3 * Updated Freemius SDK to 2.3.2 = 2.1.14 = Release Date: March 26, 2020 * Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 4.0.1 = 2.2.0 = Release Date: May 18, 2020 * Polylang compatibility * new feature "Url suffix" * support new symbols * minor improvements