Complex Permalink & Product Attribute Problem

[larslenselink]

Hi all!

I have a complex product permalink and product attribute problem that I would like to solve.

The first problem is that I cannot seem to figure out how to set the permalinks correctly. The url of my woo-commerce shop page is http://www.transferpersshop.nl/winkel. Therefore, for my products I have set the Product permalink to “/winkel/%product_cat%”. I have 3 product categories (transferpersen/ tweedehands transferpers/ accessoires) so when I go to, for instance, http://www.transferpersshop.nl/winkel/transferpersen/, the page shows only this product category.

All good here, but when I use the “category” or “merk” (brand) filter in the sidebar, the page permalink changes to “http://www.transferpersshop.nl/product-categorie/transferpersen/” (i.s.o /winkel/transferpersen/. The “product-category” base permalink which is linked towards, is the default permalink base, set in the permalink settings and can be changed of course. The problem is when I change also this base permalink to /winkel/, all of my single product pages get a 404 not found error. How can I solve this problem?

Furthermore, I have set the base permalink structure of my product attributes to “winkel/%product_cat%/attribute-name/attribute/”. This all work correctly. I can, for instance, link directly link to a specific “merk” (brand) as shows here with the “Stahls” brand: http://www.transferpersshop.nl/winkel/transferpersen/merk/stahls/. The problem here is that the woo-commerce “Merk” filter in the sidebar doesn’t work anymore. How can I fix this?

[larslenselink]

Edit: changing the base permalink structure of my product attributes to “winkel/%product_cat%/attribute-name/attribute/” also result in 404 not found errors for my single products. It seems that you cannot assign the same permalink structure (/winkel/%product_cat%) for different wordpress elements (page/ category/ product attribute).

How can I fix this all.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Hi there,

This isn’t something that would be our place to answer, as it is strictly to do with the WooCommerce plugins. You’d be best off directing your question here – http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerce

Hope that helps, apologies for the delay.

– Ed

[larslenselink]

Solved it by making use of the Custom Permalink Plugin and changed the site’s permalink structure.

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Glad you sorted it, thanks for letting us know 🙂

– Ed