Change catalog URLs

By default the main catalog listing is created with the ‘products’ slug. This slug is also the parent of each product page URL. When you change the main product listing page slug, all your product URLs change too.

If your catalog is already live and indexed by search engines, set up redirects from the old URLs after the change.

Change the main product listing page slug

  1. Open the main product listing page for editing. While viewing the main catalog page on your website, click Edit Product Listing on the top admin bar:
    WordPress admin bar on the main catalog page with the Edit Product Listing link highlighted
    You can also go to Products > Settings > General Settings and click the Edit button next to the Main Catalog Page option in the Catalog Layout Integration section. If the Edit button is not there, you don’t have a main listing page selected yet. Select it from the list, save the settings, and the button will appear.
    Catalog Layout Integration section with the Edit button next to the Main Catalog Page drop-down highlighted
  2. The page opens in the WordPress page editor. The page title is shown at the top of the main product listing, and you can change it here too. To change the slug, open the Page panel in the settings sidebar and click the value next to Slug:
    Page panel of the page editor settings sidebar with the Slug row highlighted
  3. Type the new slug in the field. The Permalink below the field shows the new address:
    Slug field in the page editor with the products slug and the resulting permalink
  4. Click Save in the top bar:
    Page editor top bar with the Save button highlighted

If your site uses the Classic Editor for pages, click the Edit button next to the Permalink under the page title, type the new slug, click OK and then Update.

Now visit the main catalog page to check how the catalog URL structure has changed. For example, if you change the slug to ‘flowers’:

  1. The main catalog listing page will be under example.com/flowers
  2. The individual product pages will be under example.com/flowers/example-product

Change the category URL

Product category pages use a separate parent slug. By default it is ‘products-category’, so a category page is under example.com/products-category/category-name.

To change it, go to Products > Settings > General Settings, find the Categories Parent URL field in the Categories Settings section, type a new slug and save the settings.

For more control over product and category URLs, for example to put the category in the product URL, see the Smarter Product URLs extension.

Page not found after the change?

The plugin refreshes the URL rules when you change the main catalog page. If you still see a 404 error on catalog pages after changing a slug, go to Products > Settings and click ‘Save Changes’ without changing anything. You can also do the same in Settings > Permalinks. See also the FAQ.

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