
=== Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce ===

Contributors: premmerce, freemius
Tags: woocommerce url, remove product, remove product_category, woocommerce permalink, woocommerce, woocommerce seo
Requires at least: 4.8
Tested up to: 6.9
Stable tag: 2.3.13
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce allows you to change WooCommerce permalink and remove product and product_category slugs from the URL.

== Description ==

Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce is developed to improve the current WooCommerce URL configuration features and provide your store with  better display options and additional SEO capabilities to adhere to [WooCommerce SEO Audit](https://premmerce.com/complete-woocommerce-seo-guide-tips/) standards.

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= The main competitive advantages of the plugin =

* Automatic adding  of the ‘rel = canonical’ attribute, which eliminates duplicate pages in the search results and is highly recommended by most search engines.
* Optimized work speed, even in online stores with a large number of products( over 100K).
* Dedicated interface for setting up, which allows you to make all the permalinks settings for your online store on one page.
* It has been tested for compatibility with the main WooCommerce plugins.

= The main plugin features =

* The ability to generate a product URL in such a way that only its slug can be seen.
* The ability to generate a product URL in such a way that it consists  of a product and a main category slugs.
* The ability to generate a product URL in such a way that it consists  of a product slug and its categories hierarchy.
* The ability to generate a product category URL in such a way that only its slug can be seen.
* The ability to generate a product category URL in such a way that only its slug and  categories hierarchy slugs can be seen.
* The ability to choose a main category to generate a product URL.
* Automatic adding of the ‘rel=canonical’ attribute to duplicate pages to improve SEO.

= Additional features available in Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce Premium only: =

[Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce Premium](https://premmerce.com/woocommerce-permalink-manager/)

* The ability to remove the base from the product tags URL.
* Automatic adding of 301 redirects to duplicated pages to improve SEO and site navigation.

= DEMO =

You can see how it works on the Storefront theme here: <https://storefront.premmerce.com>.

You can see how it works on the SalesZone theme here: <https://saleszone.premmerce.com>.

Plus, you can create your personal demo store and test this plugin together with [Premmerce Premium](https://premmerce.com/features/)
and all other Premmerce plugins and themes developed by our team here: [Premmerce WooCommerce Demo](https://premmerce.com/premmerce-woocommerce-demo/).

= This plugin is 100% compatible with =

* base WooCommerce functionality
* Yoast SEO
* WPML WooCommerce Multilingual
* all the Premmerce plugins

== Screenshots ==

1. The plugin settings

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does the plugin affect the overall response rate of an online store?  =
We have tested how the plugin works with the basic WooCommerce kit and the standard storefront theme and haven’t noticed any influence on the response rate of the store.

= Does the plugin create link duplicates? Does it affect SEO?  =
The plugin works perfectly with the Yoast SEO plugin installed. No link duplicates are generated. All similar URLs are automatically tagged as canonical in accordance with the search engines’ recommendations.

= Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin? =

Please report security bugs found in the source code of this plugin through the [Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program](https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/woo-permalink-manager). The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.

= Documentation =
Full documentation is available here: [Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce](https://premmerce.com/woocommerce-permalink-manager-remove-shop-product-product-category-url/)

= Installation Instructions =
Go to Plugins -> Add New section from your admin account and search for Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce.

You can also install this plugin manually:
* Download the plugin’s ZIP archive and unzip it.
* Copy the unzipped permalink-manager folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
* Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

== Changelog ==



= 2.3.13 (12th May 2026) =

* Security: Freemius SDK updated to 2.13.1
* Fix: Updated WordPress tested up to version

= 2.3.11 (21st February 2024) =

* Security: Local file inclusion vulnerability fix (Thanks to Rafie Muhammad - Patchstack)

= 2.3.10 (26th November 2023) =

* New: WooCommerce HPOS compatibility
* New: WooCommerce 8.3.1 compatibility

= 2.3.9 (19th July 2023) =

* Security: Freemius SDK updated to 2.5.10

= 2.3.8 (11th January 2023) =

* Improvement: PHP 8.1 compatibility
* Improvement: Freemius SDK updated to 2.5.3

= 2.3.7 (6th July 2022) =

* Fix: Product URLs now working correctly without 404s, due to v2.3.6

= 2.3.6 (4th July 2022) =

* Fix: Redirected URL now keeps the query strings from the original URL
* Fix: Child category URLs now redirecting correctly after altering the category setting
* Fix: Breadcrumbs URL now using the home URL instead of site URL

= 2.3.5 =

Release Date: Mar 3, 2022

* Update - Сode for PHP Coding Standards

= 2.3.4 =

Release Date: Jan 20, 2022

* Update - WooCommerce compatibility version to 6.1.0
* Update - WordPress compatibility version to 5.8.3

= 2.3.3 =

Release Date: Jul 29, 2021

* Add    - Affiliate Program
* Update - Languages

= 2.3.2 =

Release Date: Jul 5, 2021

* Add - New design pricing page
* Add - Spanish language translation
* Add - Bundles and Save tab
* Fix - Small bugs

= 2.3.1 =

Release Date: March 25, 2021

* Updated Freemius SDK to 2.4.2
* Minor improvements and fixes

= 2.3.0 =

Release Date: December 15, 2020

* Added new feature "Breadcrumbs Support"
* Added new feature "Replace the product slug with an SKU"
* Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 4.8
* Updated WordPress compatibility version to 5.6
* Updated Freemius SDK to 2.4.1
* Minor improvements and fixes

= 2.2.0 =

Release Date: May 18, 2020

* Polylang compatibility
* new feature "Url suffix"
* support new symbols
* minor improvements

= 2.1.14 =

Release Date: March 26, 2020

* Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 4.0.1

= 2.1.13 =

Release Date: Feb 20, 2020

* Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.9
* Updated WordPress compatibility version to 5.3
* Updated Freemius SDK to 2.3.2

= 2.1.12 =

Release Date: Sep 12, 2019

* Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.7

= 2.1.11 =

Release Date: Jun 24, 2019

* Update Freemius to 2.3.0
* Update Premmerce SDK to 2.1

= 2.1.10 =

Release Date: May 2, 2019

* Fix canonical redirect from product with non published status

= 2.1.9 =

Release Date: Apr 22, 2019

* Updated WooCommerce compatibility version to 3.6

= 2.1.8 =

Release Date: Mar 12, 2019

* Fixed category slug translated with WPML

= 2.1.7 =

Release Date: Mar 1, 2019

* Security fix

= 2.1.6 =

Release Date: Dec 20, 2018

* Fixed bug with cyrillic symbols in product slug
* Updated freemius version

= 2.1.5 =

Release Date: Nov 29, 2018

* Fixed updater

= 2.1.4 =

Release Date: Nov 27, 2018

* Fixed updater

= 2.1.3 =

Release Date: Nov 14, 2018

* Updated freemius version to 2.1.3
* Added WooCommerce 3.5 support

= 2.1.2 =

Release Date: Aug 2, 2018

* Fixed upgrade page

= 2.1.1 =

Release Date: Jul 31, 2018

* Fixed cyrillic slugs
* Fixed WPML language url trailing slash
* Fixed AMP redirects
* Fixed tag permalinks updates

= 2.1 =

Release Date: Jun 22, 2018

* Fixed user trailing slash
* Fixed plugin updater scripts
* Added WooCommerce 3.4 support
* Added AMP support
* Removed freemius menu subitems
* Updated premmerce SDK

= 2.0.1 =

Release Date: May 18, 2018

* Fixed payment redirect
* Fixed undefined index when product has no category

= 2.0 =

Release Date: Apr 19, 2018

* Fixed product comments pagination
* Fixed WPML term link
* Fixed private product link
* Fixed product hierarchical permalink
* Updated settings interface
* Added "YOAST" primary category
* Added canonicals
* Added remove tag base to premium version
* Added redirects to premium version

= 1.1.4 =

Release Date: Feb 02, 2018

* Added WooCommerce 3.3.0 support
* Updated translations

= 1.1.3 =

Release Date: Jan 24, 2018

* Updated freemius sdk
* Fixed the dependency check on multisite

= 1.1.2 =

Release Date: Dec 06, 2017

* Fixed product comments pagination
* Added Premmerce icon to menu
* Added Premmerce version check
* Added WordPress 4.9.1 support
* Added WooCommerce 3.2.5 support

= 1.1.1 =

Release Date: Nov 20, 2017

* Added WordPress 4.9 support
* Added WooCommerce 3.2.4 support

= 1.1 =

Release Date: Oct 31, 2017

* Added premmerce SDK
* Added freemius SDK
* Added php 5.6 support
* Added WooCommerce version check annotations
* Fixed behavior with unresolved plugin dependencies
* Fixed bug when domain has same name as url prefix
* Fixed bug with plain settings
* Fixed bug with rewrite rules after plugin install

= 1.0.1 =

Release Date: Sep 26, 2017

* Fixed a bug with wrong translation domain
* Updated FileManager

= 1.0 =
Release Date: July 24, 2017

* Initial release
