Permalink Manager for WooCommerce by Onlinefotka

SEO and redirect features

Changing URL structure on an existing shop can kill your rankings if not handled correctly. This plugin takes care of everything automatically:

• Automatic 301 redirects — all old URLs are permanently redirected to the new canonical URL. Visitors and crawlers are never left on a dead link.
• Trash redirect or 410 — when you move a product to trash, a notice on the Products list lets you redirect the old URL or mark it as permanently gone (HTTP 410) so search engines drop it from the index instead of retrying a dead link forever. Works without needing Yoast SEO Premium.
• Canonical meta tags — fixes the rel=canonical tag in the <head> to point to the new URL structure, preventing duplicate content penalties.
• Breadcrumb fix for Yoast SEO — updates Yoast breadcrumb trails to match the new URL structure.
• Breadcrumb fix for RankMath — updates RankMath breadcrumb trails to match the new URL structure.
• Primary category support — reads the primary category set in Yoast SEO or RankMath and uses it for URL generation and breadcrumb paths.
• Product tag URL cleanup — removes the /product-tag/ base slug from tag archive URLs.
• Slug conflict detection — warns you when a product slug collides with an existing page, post or custom post type.

Diagnostic tools

A dedicated Diagnostics tab inside the plugin settings lets you:

• See a live plugin status table — shows active URL mode, cache status, detected plugins (Yoast, RankMath, WPML), PHP version, WP version and WooCommerce version.
• Use the built-in URL tester — enter any URL path and instantly see how the plugin resolves it, which rewrite rule matched and whether a redirect was triggered.
• View the full list of active rewrite rules added by the plugin — useful for debugging conflicts with other plugins.
• Flush rewrite rules and rebuild the slug cache with a single click.

Performance

• Product slugs are cached in a WordPress transient (configurable TTL, default 1 hour) to avoid repeated database queries on every request.
• Rewrite rules are registered only once on init and flushed only when settings change — no performance overhead on the front end.
• No external HTTP requests, no tracking, no telemetry.

Developer notes

• Clean PHP 7.4+ code with custom PSR-4 autoloader — no Composer required
• Namespace WCUM\ — no global function pollution
• All settings stored in a single WordPress option as a serialized array
• Activation hook flushes rewrite rules; deactivation hook restores WooCommerce defaults; uninstall hook removes all plugin data
• Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
• Compatible with WPML and Polylang (basic multilingual support via standard WP rewrite API)