Removing /shop/ from WooCommerce URLs

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Currently I have a WooCommerce installation where product URLs are produced as such:

domain.com/shop/product-category/product-name/

Due to SEO and current site structure, I would like to change it to:

domain.com/product-category/product-name/

I know how to remove shop from the breadcrumb using the woocommerce_get_breadcrumb filter, but I am unsure how to proceed for the URLs themselves.

All I've found on Stack Overflow are people recommending to install a plugin called Premmerce. This plugin has a premium version and constantly hassles you to upgrade: Removing /product-category/ and /shop/ from URL in WooCommerce

I would like to do this programmatically from my own plugin or just functions.php

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1 Answers

WooCommerce forces /product/ on you if you try only inputting /%product_cat%/ in the permalinks panel through class-wc-admin-permalink-settings.php. The wc permalinks is an option called "woocommerce_permalinks". Since I only want to have /%product_cat%/, I can just force it even though it's not the most elegant solution:

add_action( "update_option_woocommerce_permalinks", "apply_product_cat", 10, 3 );

function apply_product_cat( $old_val, $new_val, $option_name ) {
    if ($option_name == "woocommerce_permalinks") {
        $new_val['product_base'] = "/%product_cat%/";
        update_option( "woocommerce_permalinks", $new_val );
    }
}

What Premmerce does is effectively offer you another admin panel, where they just save to this option on their own.

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