Change /event/ part of URL on single page in line with category

[Lucy]

Hello,

I love your plugin!

Just one thing, I have given my event posts one of 3 different categories for the type of event they are. I am wondering whether this can be reflected in the URL for the single event posts – so that /event/ could be changed to eg. /class/, /workshop/ or /community/ depending on the category given to that event? For 301 redirect purposes.

Thanks in advance,
Lucy

[Brook]

Howdy Lucy!

I would love to help you with this.

In theory what you want is very possible. In practice that is going to be difficult to implement and rather prone to breaking with plugin updates. I would strongly advise you not to do this.

But if you don’t wish to heed my advice and have some mad programming skills: You will need to familiarize yourself with the WP Rewrite API. All of our URLs are a part of it. It sounds like you would want to add a few a rules to it that point to those categories events. With those in place visiting those pages will now take you to where you want to be, but nowhere on the calendar will link to them. The easiest way to solve this would be using your .htaccess file (or equivalent) to create redirects that push those categories to the new URLs you added.

Does that all make sense? Will that work for you? Please let me know.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Lucy]

HI Brook,

Thank for your reply.
I think i’ll take your advise and not change the URLs of the event posts, as I don’t want to risk messing anything up! I will look at other ways I can improve my 301 redirects / SEO.

Thanks again,
Lucy

[Brook]

That’s probably wise. 🙂 WordPress is very customizable and does let you alter this stuff, but in all of my client sites I try to avoid it if possible. It is a finicky API, particularly the more plugins you have installed. They must all share the same space and it gets crowded and unpredictable quickly.

Fortunately Google and company seem to note value URL structure as highly as they used to, and so focusing on other areas is usually the best place to spend your time anyways.

Please let me know if you have any more questions. Cheers!

– Brook

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