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I am migrating a currently static website to WordPress.

The pages (I am using pages, not posts and categories) have the following structure:

 Products (parent page)
 - Product 1 (child-page)
 - Product 2 (child-page)
 - Product 3 (child-page)

Custom permalink is:

example.com/%category%/%postname%/

Generated links are:

example.com/products
example.com/products/product-1
example.com/products/product-2
example.com/products/product-3

Now for SEO reasons, the old link for Product 2 was

example.com/my-super-products/product-2

How can I override the category for this page without creating a new parent page with the desired name?

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  • your products are child pages of a parent page, how are categories involved? your permalinks setting has no relation to pages, only posts. – Milo Nov 30 '14 at 21:37
  • I have pages, not posts and categories. The permalink does influence pages as well. – Valentin Despa Nov 30 '14 at 21:38
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    the title and content of your question both say category, so what you're actually asking is how can a child page appear to have a different parent page without that parent page actually existing? – Milo Nov 30 '14 at 21:44
  • True, I mentioned categories, as the permalink is using the term categories. But you rephrased my question correctly. – Valentin Despa Nov 30 '14 at 21:48
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The Rewrite_API will let you modify the slug and URI at many levels. You might need to come up with a custom page template for Product 2 that assigns the '/my-super-products' slug, but this should work for you.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Rewrite_API

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