SEO Pro Fix: Category links without parent categories
An extension for SEO Pro that allows you to make category URLs short, without parent categories, in OpenCart and ocStore. Shortening child category links by removing parent category SEO URLs. This is an ocmod modifier that just needs to be installed and it works immediately, that is, it does not have any settings.
In the SEO Pro settings, there is an option "Product URLs with categories" : "Yes/No", but there is no such option for categories, so that you can make their urls short. What is it for anyway? For example, to preserve the link structure of the old site or so that the links to categories do not depend on their main categories, because it is not possible to predict all options for future changes in the structure of site categories, but it is very easy to eliminate possible problems at the stage of site design and development. by making single-level references to categories, regardless of the number of parent categories. That is why this fix SEO Pro was created.
The path to the category page in breadcrumbs will remain full, including all of its parent categories, but the URLs of all of those categories will be shortened.
Examples of shortening category URLs:
Before:
https://shop.com/category/subcategory/
After:
https://shop.com/subcategory/
Module installation instructions:
Upload the module in the admin panel in the "Extensions" : "Install".
Go to the "Modifications" section and update the cache.
Refresh the system cache (SEO URL cache).
Check module operation.
Bingo!
Changelog of Short category URL in SEO Pro
v1.0.5 (11 January 2024) - Fixed duplication of prefixes from https://opencartbot.com/en/seopro-prefix module
v1.0.4 (07 November 2023) - Fixed an issue with the product page
v1.0.3 (15 August 2023) - The breadcrumbs in the product has been corrected - now the full chain of categories is displayed there. Compatibility with ocFilter landing pages.
v1.0.2 (08 May 2023) - Implemented compatibility with prefixes in URL https://opencartbot.com/en/seopro-prefix
v1.0.1 (29 April 2023) - The compatibility issue with ocStore has been resolved
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Александр Свитящук
23 January 2024
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