We have a site with categories and subcategories.
If anybody navigates to a content belongs to a subcategory the url will have the following form: domain/main-category/sub-category/mycontent/ But we need another form: domain/main-category/mycontent where mycontent belongs a subcategory inside main-category, but we don't want the subcategory to be displayed in the URL.
Is there any possible solution for this?
If you go to Settings->Permalinks you should be able to set the tag/category base URL rules which should solve this problem.
Or, use some sort of plugin to do what you want. This one came up first on Google: http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/
try the following code :
function remove_child_categories_from_permalinks( $category ) {
while ( $category->parent ) {
$category = get_term( $category->parent, 'category' );
}
return $category;
}
add_filter( 'post_link_category', 'remove_child_categories_from_permalinks' );
Yes you can! Just select the primary category of the post.
I am sorry that this screenshot is german, but it is pretty self-explaining. Here we have a main group "Party" with a subgroup "Rezepte". We can set the url to only "/party" by selecting that category as a new main.
The screenshot is taken from WordPress 5.8
Also make sure your permalink structure (Settings->Permalinks) is set to /%category%/%postname%!
You can rewrite you .htaccess if you are familiar with this.
Add the below line and try it:
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.site.com/$1 [R=301,L]
This should work fine. Add this to your end of functions.php file.
examplesite.com/wp-content/theme/yourtheme/functions.php <<- right there.
// Remove category base
add_filter('category_link', 'no_category_parents',1000,2);
function no_category_parents($catlink, $category_id) {
$category = &get_category( $category_id );
if ( is_wp_error( $category ) )
return $category;
$category_nicename = $category->slug;
$catlink = trailingslashit(get_option( 'home' )) . user_trailingslashit( $category_nicename, 'category' );
return $catlink;
}
// Add our custom category rewrite rules
add_filter('category_rewrite_rules', 'no_category_parents_rewrite_rules');
function no_category_parents_rewrite_rules($category_rewrite) {
//print_r($category_rewrite); // For Debugging
$category_rewrite=array();
$categories=get_categories(array('hide_empty'=>false));
foreach($categories as $category) {
$category_nicename = $category->slug;
$category_rewrite['('.$category_nicename.')/(?:feed/)?(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$'] = 'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&feed=$matches[2]';
$category_rewrite['('.$category_nicename.')/page/?([0-9]{1,})/?$'] = 'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]';
$category_rewrite['('.$category_nicename.')/?$'] = 'index.php?category_name=$matches[1]';
}
// Redirect support from Old Category Base
global $wp_rewrite;
$old_base = $wp_rewrite->get_category_permastruct();
$old_base = str_replace( '%category%', '(.+)', $old_base );
$old_base = trim($old_base, '/');
$category_rewrite[$old_base.'$'] = 'index.php?category_redirect=$matches[1]';
//print_r($category_rewrite); // For Debugging
return $category_rewrite;
}
// Add 'category_redirect' query variable
add_filter('query_vars', 'no_category_parents_query_vars');
function no_category_parents_query_vars($public_query_vars) {
$public_query_vars[] = 'category_redirect';
return $public_query_vars;
}
// Redirect if 'category_redirect' is set
add_filter('request', 'no_category_parents_request');
function no_category_parents_request($query_vars) {
//print_r($query_vars); // For Debugging
if(isset($query_vars['category_redirect'])) {
$catlink = trailingslashit(get_option( 'home' )) . user_trailingslashit( $query_vars['category_redirect'], 'category' );
status_header(301);
header("Location: $catlink");
exit();
}
return $query_vars;
}
If you're using WP Category permalink plugin then disable it and use the following as your permalink custom structure
/%category%/%postname%/
That's it
Just go to:
www.example.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php (Settings->Permalinks)
and choose /%category%/%postname%/
That should do it.!
