WP Category Permalink

Description

This plugin allows you to select a main category (or taxonomy) for your posts for nicer permalinks and SEO.

What it does?

A custom structure such as /%category%/%postname%/ should be usually chosen for your permalinks. By default, this %category% is selected automatically (using the lowest ID) in the case your post is assigned to more than one category. This plugin will let you pick the category of your choice from the ‘Post Edit’ page. The chosen category is shown in bold on the ‘Posts List’ page and the ‘Post Edit’ page.

Posts List

Below the title, you will see the permalink currently set-up for this entry. If a heart is present, it means that the category (or taxonomy) has been picked up.

Breadcrumbs

They have their own way of working and can’t be supported automatically by default because they are created by specific themes or plugins. If you encounter issues with breadcrumbs, please say so in the Support Threads and let’s see how we can make it work.

Compatibility

It works with any theme or plugin that creates post types and taxonomies but it looks like it doesn’t work with the plugin called “Types”. You can use “Custom Post Type UI” instead.

Please contribute

It works for standard setups, but the plugin might be modified depending on the case. Don’t hesitate to participate in making this plugin better. The official git for this project is here: https://github.com/jordymeow/wp-category-permalink. Thanks to those contributors:

• David Remer (https://github.com/websupporter)

Languages: English.

Screenshots

Installation

1. Upload wp-category-permalink.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

FAQ

How to get the chosen category using PHP?

Have a look at this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/get-primary-category/#post-9055471

Reviews

Not working at the Moment

titusraj November 24, 2019

Hi, I have been using this plugin for some years. It does not seem to be working with the current version of wordpress. Had a host of errors from Google ads and realised all the loved permalinks were no longer functioning an creating a redirect error. It works fine when Classic Editor Plugin is activated. Does not work when classic editor plugin is deactivated and guttenberg is activated. Hope is gets fixed soon. Thanks

It’s great and it works with 5.2.2

r0by August 2, 2019

Works flawlessly with 5.2.2. Thank you!

Perfect replacement for WP gallery custom links

February 4, 2019

This does everything I used the old WP Custom Gallery links plugin for, with the added bonus that it works with Gutenberg! The creator is also super helpful, I had an issue with using the plugin due to an old version of php on my server, and he was able to debug and fix the problem straight away.Very impressed, both with the plugin and also customer service.

Great plugin

gezginorman August 21, 2018

If you have posts that belong more than one category, you’ll love this plugin.

Works great

bramchi May 17, 2018

Works great

This Plugin Is Awesome

barglobeworld March 5, 2017 1 reply

I searched high and low for ages looking for a plugin that does exactly what this one does. I was overjoyed when I found it AND when I saw how easy it is to use. There are plugins that let you do away with having the category name in the permalink altogether, but WordPress does not recommend it because of its structure and I think it’s good to have categories in the links of products. Most of the products on my website are in more than one category. Now, just by clicking on an image of a heart next to the category list, I can tell WordPress which category (or subcategory) I want in my product permalink. Thank you Jordy for this incredible plugin. It should be in the top ten of “must haves” for WP.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

3.4.0

• Compatibility with PHP 7.2 by removing create_function calls. Thanks to David (https://github.com/jordymeow/wp-category-permalink/pull/3#issuecomment-443597831).

3.3.0

• Everything is released for free.

3.2.8

• Fix: WP 4.9.

3.2.7

• Fix: Name instead of Query Var.

3.2.6

• Fix: Avoid double trailing slashes.

3.2.4

• Fix: Trailing slashes.

3.2.3

• Fix: Display issues (heart icon was flying all over the place).
• Fix: Permalinks are handled in a much better way. More support for other plugins for custom permalinks.

3.2.2

• Fix: Handle events on the label instead of the li. Inject the link into the label too.
• Update: Additional error handling.

3.0.4

• Update: Enhance the way the post meta is handled.
• Fix: Now newly created categories can be selected.
• Fix: Pro version validation.

3.0.3

• Fix: The permalink below the title was showing a warning even though the category has been picked with a previous version of the plugin.
• Fix: The categories were not bold nor red on the Posts list. With Pro, that also works with WooCommerce well ??
• Fix: Issue from the past. If you can’t seem to save your columns, you might need to run the query “DELETE FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key LIKE ‘%wp_manageedit%’” on your DB, just once, to repair the View Screen options.

3.0.2

• Fix: Issue with multisite (with the includes).
• Add: Permalink shown below the title of the posts list (can be disabled in the option). Heart means a category has been picked, otherwise a little red warning is shown.
• Update: A lot of coding & UI improvements.

2.2.8

• Fix: Infinite hidden columns to user meta (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/infinite-user-meta).

2.0

• Fix: Update issue for non-WooCommerce user.
• Change: Let’s make it 2.0 since it’s a major change.

1.0

• Stable release.

0.1.4

• Add: default category will be shown in red if no category was picked.