Title: Permalink issues… Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Permalink issues… * Resolved [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/) * Hi.. * I’ve recently just started working on word press as the job I have with this new company requires me to.. I’ve been reading alot into wordpress and etc but I’m still lost on permalinks.. A product on the website I’m working on has a URL like this: [http://www.mysite.com/product/vanilla-ice-cream](http://www.mysite.com/product/vanilla-ice-cream) * but I want it to be like: [http://www.mysite.com/vanilla-ice-cream](http://www.mysite.com/vanilla-ice-cream) * The “/product/” is always coming in the middle for some reason..Ive tried plugins but nothing worked…I’ve tried permalinks settings in wordpress and changing it to %postname% but that dont work either… all the poking made me realize that this is the Product Slug (from Appearances options) but if I leave it blank it comes up as * [http://www.mysite.com/n-a/vanilla-ice-cream](http://www.mysite.com/n-a/vanilla-ice-cream) * please can I get some help? * Also .htaccess file is * ``` # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress ``` Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143403) * Does the site use [custom post types](http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types#Custom_Post_Types)? * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143406) * How do I check that? Sorry I am pretty new to all this… Although i just read what custom post types are and that would explain the product slug… could you tell me how to change it for both? * [Borko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media-x/) * (@media-x) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143410) * Are you using a ecommerce plugin? Woocommerce maybe? If so, check WooCommerce > Settings > Pages. There’s a permalink section also. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143414) * Are these posts list under All Posts or under their own Product menu item in the admin area? * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143417) * The plugins that I have enabled on wordpress are as follows * All in 1 webmaster breadcrumb Navxt Compare+ CSV importer Exec-php Jquery Lazy Load Plugin Nofollow for external link Redirection Seo Ultimate Widget Logic Worpress importer Wordpress SEO WP-Optimize WP-Pagenavi WP smush.it * Also I have COMPARE on my wordpress as the site I am working on is a price comparison site… * The products are in a category on the website..eg: Vanilla Ice cream would be under Ice creams category…Untill yesterday if I clinked on Ice cream the link would be * [http://www.mysite.com/product/ice_cream](http://www.mysite.com/product/ice_cream) * Notice how “/Product/” was coming for categories too.. but thanks to plugins I removed the “/Product/” from appearing on the category URL… but for actual products I cant seem to remove it.. * I put products on my website through COMPARE+ plugin which is linked with COMPARE * more abt COMPARE:[](http://www.awesemthemes.com/products/compare) * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143419) * [http://www.awesemthemes.com/products/compare](http://www.awesemthemes.com/products/compare) * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143421) * All the posts are listed in a column called “products” in the admin area..the Post column is there but it has other posts and not products * [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/) * (@bemdesign) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143449) * this part: * `$slug = $slug_first_part."/%product_category%/%product_brand%";` * is what’s generating it. * In your particular case, take out the /%product_category%/ from that code and you should end up with the url format you want. * Do note that this will impact all products created by this custom post type unless you build in conditional logic to only apply the change to particular products. * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143458) * Thanks for your reply.. * I did what u asked me to but its still the same. 🙁 * _[Moderator Note: Stop bumping every few minutes! This is a forum – not live chat. [No bumping](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#No_Bumping). If it’s that urgent, consider [hiring someone](http://directory.codepoet.com/).]_ * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143562) * Sorry MR. Moderator :$ * [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/) * (@bemdesign) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143577) * I just realized you’re using a paid plugin (Compare+) to generate this. In that case I’d suggest contacting the vendor of the plugin for further assistance ( it’s their code that’s generating the URLs and they’d know best how to make the change you’re requesting). * Thread Starter [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * (@nebuloushomosapien) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143578) * Hmm.. I shall contact them.. Thank you so much for your help! 🙂 Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Permalink issues…’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/) * [urls](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/urls/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 12 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [nebuloushomosapien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nebuloushomosapien/) * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-issues-16/#post-4143578) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics