WordPress Custom Permalinks Plugin Helps You Clean Up and SEO Messy URLs
Recently I had a situation where I had multiple levels of child categories (sub categories), and my permalinks ended up looking like this for a category page:
example.com/parent-category/child-category/sub-child-category/
Because this page would be a destination page that would be shared and even memorized by some, I needed to get the permalink for the Sub Child Category to look like this:
example.com/sub-child-category/
After trolling through lots of close-but-no-cigar code snippets and broken plugins, I finally came across the Custom Permalinks plugin. This plugin lets you set custom permalinks on a per post, per tag, or per category basis.
And in the process, as in my case above, it doesn’t break your bread crumbs either (i.e. my bread crumbs still show the parent category, child category, and sub child category links).
Creating Custom Permalinks
You create your custom permalinks in several places, depending on what you’re working with (categories, tags, or posts).
For both categories and tags, you can customize the permalink on the edit pages for categories and tags (either when creating or editing on those pages: Posts > Categories and Posts > Tags respectively).
For posts, you can edit the permalink when editing the post.
SEO Benefits
In my case above, I was cleaning up my URLs solely for the benefit of visitors; however, it has been said that shorter, cleaner URLs will also help you with SEO. To what degree that’s true is debatable (as is much in SEO), but it’s clear that Google prefers short, nice-looking URLs. They have even said as much: “A site’s URL structure should be as simple as possible. … Whenever possible, shorten URLs by trimming unnecessary parameters.”
So there you are — if you have long, messy URLs, this plugin can help you clean them up.
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