How to make pages slug have priority over any other taxonomies like custom-post, post or category

Question

I use WordPress as a CMS.

I need to show page instead of category when they have same slug.

• I have category called "vertical machining centers" with the slug "vertical-machining-centers"

This category is ranking in the second page in google and I want to optimize more. So I create a page..

So as you see the page and the category have the same slug.

When I write www.xx.com/vertical-machining-centers , the category page is opening, I also check with it monkeyman-rewrite-analyzer it shows that category slug is higher rank.

I need to make wordpress to show the page instead of category when they have the same slug.

Is there any plugin or any way to do that without writing code.

Thanks....

Answer 1

You will need to enable verbose page rules, which make sure that all pages are explicitly defined (instead of using a generic rule). But in addition to that, you need to move these page rules above the taxonomy rules. This is a fairly recent change, I believe it was between 3.0 and 3.1.

I explain how to do this in this answer to a very related question. Together, it is this code:

add_action( 'init', 'wpse16902_init' );
function wpse16902_init() {
    $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->use_verbose_page_rules = true;
}

add_filter( 'page_rewrite_rules', 'wpse16902_collect_page_rewrite_rules' );
function wpse16902_collect_page_rewrite_rules( $page_rewrite_rules )
{
    $GLOBALS['wpse16902_page_rewrite_rules'] = $page_rewrite_rules;
    return array();
}

add_filter( 'rewrite_rules_array', 'wspe16902_prepend_page_rewrite_rules' );
function wspe16902_prepend_page_rewrite_rules( $rewrite_rules )
{
    return $GLOBALS['wpse16902_page_rewrite_rules'] + $rewrite_rules;
}

Answer 2

i'd the same problem as you.

My fix was that one, but for my case i'm using Visual Composer in page creation. That's important 'cause my method will port only the content part of the page.

Instead of changing the priority, i changed the category template for that category!

So.. create the page that you want to set as the category and take note of the ID (for example 86292).

If your category has ad ID (as example 35), you can create a custom category template by copying the archive.php and renaming it to category-35.php.

Inside.. delete every blogloop and set this as the content:

    $p = get_post(86292); 
    echo do_shortcode($p->post_content);

Now every change you made to the post (that can stay as draft) will be reflected on the category :D

One or two notes...

Any custom infos (as SEO, custom css, etc) will NOT BE PORTED! Only the editor content.

If you want to set any custom css, you've to use the tag inside the category-x.php .