garretthyder / permalinks-customizer

Generate permalinks with provided structured for the post types or use WordPress Permalink settings.

Permalinks Customizer

Description

Customize your URL and set the slug. You can use basic keywords which is defined by the WordPress for defining the permalinks as well as someother new keywords which is defined by this plugin. All the keywords are defined on the Tags page under Permalinks Customizer.

By using Permalinks Customizer you can set the different permalink structure for each and every PostType and Taxonomy.

How to set the Permalinks for the PostTypes separately

Let's assume that you have 6 PostTypes and they all have different style of permalinks. Like:

• Blog : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/blog/year-month-date-postname/
• Customers : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/customers/postname/
• Events : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/events/year-month-date-postname/
• Press : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/press/category/year/postname/
• News : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/news/year/postname/
• Sponsors : For this post type you want to create a permalink which looks like this: http://www.example.com/company/sponsor/post_title/

This plugin allows you to do this very easily. You just need to go on Permalinks Customizer Settings Page. Where text fields are shown with PostType name. You can define your permalinks you want to create for each post type.

If you leave any PostType field empty. So, Permalinks Customizer would create a permalink for that PostType by using the default permalink settings.

How to Configure Permalinks Customizer

You can configure the plugin by going to the menu Permalinks Customizer that appears in your admin menu.

OR

You can directly access it from: http://www.example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=permalinks-customizer-posts-settings

Structure Tags

Tags for PostTypes

• %title% : Title of the post. let's say the title is "This Is A Great Post!" so, it becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI.
• %year% : The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004.
• %monthnum% : Month of the year, for example 05.
• %day% : Day of the month, for example 28.
• %hour% : Hour of the day, for example 15.
• %minute% : Minute of the hour, for example 43.
• %second% : Second of the minute, for example 33.
• %post_id% : The unique ID # of the post, for example 423.
• %postname% : A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI.
• %postname% : A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI.
• %parent_postname% : A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So "This Is A Great Post!" becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI. This Tag contains Immediate Parent Page Slug if any parent page is selected before publishing.
• %category% : A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI.
• %child-category% : A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel).
• %product_cat% : A sanitized version of the product category name (category slug field on New/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. This tag is specially used for WooCommerce Products.
• <%ctax_custom_taxonomy%> : A sanitized version of the custom taxonomy where the taxonomy name is custom_taxonomy. Replace the custom_taxonomy with your appropriate created taxonomy name. If you want to provide the default slug which is used when the category/taxonomy doesn't be selected so, make sure to provide default name/slug which looks like this: <%ctax_custom_taxonomy??sales%>. Value which is written between the ?? and %> is used as default slug.
• %author% : A sanitized version of the author name.
• %author_firstname% : A sanitized version of the author first name. If author first name is not available so, it uses the author's username.
• %author_lastname% : A sanitized version of the author last name. If author last name is not available so, it uses the author's username.

Note: %postname% is similar as of the %title% tag but the difference is that %postname% can only be set once whereas %title% can be changed. let's say the title is "This Is A Great Post!" so, it becomes "this-is-a-great-post" in the URI(At the first time, %postname% and %title% works same) but if you edit and change title let's say "This Is A WordPress Post!" so, %postname% in the URI remains same "this-is-a-great-post" whereas %title% in the URI becomes "this-is-a-wordpress-post"

Tags for Taxonomies

• %name% : Name of the Term/Category. let's say the name is "External API" so, it becomes external-api in the URI.
• %term_id% : The unique ID # of the Term/Category, for example 423
• %slug% : A sanitized version of the name of the Term/Category. So "External API" becomes external-api in the URI.
• %parent_slug% : A sanitized version of the name of the Term/Category. So "External API" becomes external-api in the URI. This Tag contains Immediate Parent Term/Category Slug if any parent Term/Category is selected before adding it.
• %all_parents_slug% : A sanitized version of the name of the Term/Category. So "External API" becomes external-api in the URI. This Tag contains all the Parent Term/Category Slug if any parent Term/Category is selected before adding it.

Be warned: This plugin is not a replacement for WordPress's built-in permalink system. Check your WordPress administration's "Permalinks" settings page first, to make sure that this doesn't already meet your needs.

Filters

Exclude Permalinks

If you want to exclude some Permalink to processed with the plugin so, just add the filter looks like this:

function yasglobal_exclude_url( $permalink ) {
  if ( false !== strpos( $permalink, '/contact-us/' ) ) {
    return '__true';
  }
  return;
}
add_filter( 'permalinks_customizer_exclude_request', 'yasglobal_exclude_url' );

Disable automatically create redirects

To disable automatically create redirects feature on creating and updating the post/pages/categories, add this filter in your themes functions.php.

add_filter( 'permalinks_customizer_auto_created_redirects', '__return_false');

This filter stops to be creating new redirects but existed redirects keeps working. To stop existed redirects, add [this](#disable Redirects) filter.

Disable Redirects

To disable redirects to be applied , add this filter in your themes functions.php.

add_filter( 'permalinks_customizer_disable_redirects', '__return_false');

This filter only stop redirects to be work but the automatically create redirects still works. To stop automatically create redirects feature add this filter.

Thanks for the Support

The support from the users that love Permalinks Customizer is huge. You can support Permalinks Customizer future development and help to make it even better by donating or even giving a 5 star rating with a nice message to me 😃

Donate to Permalinks Customizer

Installation

This process defines you the steps to follow either you are installing through WordPress or Manually from FTP.

From within WordPress

1. Visit 'Plugins > Add New'
2. Search for Permalinks Customizer
3. Activate Permalinks Customizer from your Plugins page.
4. Go to after activation below.

Manually

1. Upload the permalinks-customizer folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate Permalinks Customizer through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Go to after activation below.

After activation

1. Go to the plugin settings page and set up the plugin for your site.
2. You're done!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. How to define slug of the post type?

A. Go to Settings, there is a field with the post type name. On this field, you can define slug for the post type.

Q. Can i use tags?

A. Yes, you can use any tag as defined on the Structure Tags Section.

Q. Does the plugin supports custom taxonomy tag?

A. Yes, it supports custom taxonomy tag. You can define the tag as mentioned on the Structure Tags Section.

Q. Can i regenerate all the permalinks according to the defined structure?

A. Yes, you can regenerate all the permalinks according to the defined structure. To have a bulk permalink update, Go to the All Post page there is a a option in the bulk action drop down with the name of Regenerate Pemralinks. Use that option for regenerating the Permalinks.

Q. Does Regenerate Pemralinks damage my site SEO?

A. No, it won't damage your site SEO. As regenerating permalinks added redirect against their previous permalink.

Q. May this plugin works with custom permalinks?

A. No, This plugin does not work with custom permalinks Plugin.