5996576-Category URLs Fixer for WooCommerce.zip

EXPLAINING THE PROBLEM:
Let’s say that one of your categories is food > pizza. The main URL will be:
www.example.com/products/food/pizza/

If you try to replace “food” with anything else, it will work anyway (try on yourself with your own site!). For example:

www.example.com/products/test/pizza/

www.example.com/products/lorem-ipsum/pizza/

www.example.com/products/pasta/pizza/

It works even if you remove the main category:
www.example.com/products/pizza/

The result is that you will get a lot of duplicated content: several pages with different URLs but same data.

FIXING IT:
This plugin automatically improves WooCommerce URL structure for product categories/subcategories, removing (redirecting) duplicated contents.

If you go to:
www.example.com/products/a-random-word/pizza/
You will be automatically redirected to:
www.example.com/products/food/pizza/ (the main, unique, “official” and canonical URL).

HOW TO:
Just install the plugin and it will start doing its job, automatically. No configuration is needed!

CHANGELOG:

1.03 – Bug fixes

1.02 – Now the redirect preserves the original querystring (filters or sorting), if present.

1.01 – Fixed a bug that was causing an unwanted redirect to the frontend when filtering by category from the admin panel—thanks to paolo_rossato for the bug report!

1.00 – Initial release