How can i change the permalink category name

Hi, yes, this is the default way things work with WPCHTMLP.

The WordPress default permalink domain.com/html-pages/mypage doesn’t even really work, only the domain.com/mypage (what you entered in the custom permalink field above the page code) actually works and will output the custom page.

A major update of the plugin will be published in a few days that will clear this confusion and will be overwriting default WordPress permalink as seen in the edit page screen.

Oh I see. Thanks for the quick reply!

I used the custom permalink first but it comes with the problem that the search feature on the websites routes to a 404 since that links to the html-pages/page.html. Will this be fixed in the update, or do you have an idea for a fix?

Worth noting that I have good skills in HTML and CSS, but I’m new to PHP and WP.

Yes you can add a few lines to the plugin file to overwrite default permalinks sitewide.
Since I don’t want to post untested code here, and I have to do something else first, I will post a solution in couple hours.

This should work, add somewhere between other functions in /wp-content/plugins/wp-custom-html-pages/wp-custom-html-pages.php

function WPCHTMLP_post_type_link($post_url, $post) {
		if ( 'wpchtmlp_page' === get_post_type( $post->ID ) ) {
			$page_meta_box = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'WPCHTMLP_page_meta_box', true );
			if(isset($page_meta_box ['html_permalink']))
				return get_site_url()."/".$page_meta_box ['html_permalink'];
		}
		return $post_url;
}
add_filter( 'post_type_link', 'WPCHTMLP_post_type_link', 10, 2 );

It will add filter to permalinks, where if post type is custom HTML page and it has custom permalink setup it will change default permalink to website.com/custom-permalink.