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In permalinks settings the 'Shop Base with Category' /shop/%product_cat%/ permalink setting puts all the hierarchical categories in the url, for example:

http:// mystore.com/shop/parent-category/child-category/product

I want to remove anything between parent-category and product so my urls look like:

http:// mystore.com/shop/parent-category/product

I am pretty sure that setting up urls like this does not cause problems, because I can manually type the shortened url into an address bar and it goes to the same place as the longer one.

Thanks.

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  • This is something I have just found too, but it doesn't work if the URL is already in the browser - ie, linked externally. If Google has indexed it with the Sub Category version, can a function strip out the sub-category, and 301 it to the version asked about here?
    – Simon_a6
    Nov 17 at 14:13

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It's actually quite simple. Use the woocommerce_product_post_type_link_parent_category_only filter:

add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_post_type_link_parent_category_only', '__return_true' );

Tried and tested working.

PS: The code would go into the theme functions file and __return_true() is a WordPress function.

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  • I had been working on custom rewrites. This works perfectly, thanks.
    – AJD
    May 24, 2019 at 14:53
  • You're welcome. :)
    – Sally CJ
    May 24, 2019 at 15:10
  • THANK YOU THANK YOU. Worked for me after 1,5 weeks tring with plugins, etc,...
    – Slavko
    Feb 16, 2022 at 16:04

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