WooCommerce uses predefined URL structures for products, product categories, and product tags. These structures may not always match your preferred URL format or the way you organize your store.
Permalink Manager gives you control over WooCommerce permalinks directly in the WordPress admin dashboard. You can modify the global permalink structure or override the URL of any product, category, tag or attribute.
By default, the plugin redirects old URLs to new ones, so you don't need custom code or an additional plugin to manage redirects after changing your store permalinks.
How to Change WooCommerce Product and Category URLs
How to Bulk Edit WooCommerce Permalinks
The quickest way to change multiple WooCommerce permalinks in bulk is to use the Permastructures editor. It lets you change the permalink format and define custom URL structures for products, product categories, tags and product attributes separately.
How to Change a Single Product or Category Permalink
Permalink Manager lets you change permalinks and override the global settings for individual WooCommerce products and product categories.
You can edit a permalink directly from the Edit Product, Edit Product Category screen, or from another admin screen where you normally edit the title or content.
Advanced WooCommerce Permalink Customizations
Add a SKU to WooCommerce Product URLs
With Permalink Manager, you can customize product permalink structures to include SKUs or other custom fields to product URLs directly from the WordPress dashboard, without writing code or using complex workarounds.
Remove /product/ and /product-category/ from WooCommerce URLs
By default, WooCommerce uses specific URL formats for products, product categories, and product tags, each with its own URL base. Permalink Manager lets you customize these permalink structures and replace or remove WooCommerce product and category URL bases.
Remove "-2" (Duplicate Slug Suffix) from WooCommerce URLs
WordPress may add parent slugs or numeric suffixes, such as -2, to avoid duplicate slugs. This can happen even if the content belongs to a different category or uses a different language.
With Permalink Manager, you can reuse the same slug in WooCommerce permalinks without WordPress automatically adding a numeric suffix to the custom permalink.
Custom Permalinks for WooCommerce Coupons
By default, customers must enter a coupon code at checkout to receive a discount. Permalink Manager Pro lets you create shareable links for WooCommerce coupons, so customers can apply the discount to their cart automatically when they visit the link.
FAQ
Can You Change WooCommerce Permalinks Without a Plugin?
Custom code can handle many permalink changes without adding much overhead. However, compatibility issues, edge cases, and unexpected 404 errors may increase the time and effort required to debug and maintain it.
If you would rather avoid modifying PHP files or maintaining custom code, Permalink Manager lets you customize WooCommerce permalinks directly from the WordPress admin dashboard.
How Does Permalink Manager Store WooCommerce Permalinks?
Permalink Manager stores custom permalink data in a single serialized database record instead of creating a separate custom field for each permalink, as many other permalink plugins do.
This approach reduces the number of SQL queries while keeping the impact on page load time low compared with other permalink plugins, especially on larger websites.
The actual performance benefit depends also on other factors such as database size, caching, and server configuration.