Taxonomic SEO Permalinks is a simple plugin that allows you to create SEO urls based on custom taxonomies in WordPress. I personally wanted to use custom taxonomies in URLs just like built-in taxonomies like category. WordPress does support some options that helps in 'rewrite' of permalinks, while creating custom taxonomies. However, I found this thing is not actually working, as I tried and tested.
So I have created this plugin to fix this issue. This plugin does two major works. First, it modifies links to posts at all the places in blog and second, it helps in parsing the URLs. If you did not understand what I just said, leave it and read below.
Let me explain you with the help of an example, what we are trying to achieve with this plugin.
Consider a university website want to build a website for announcing results. The results are announced every six months (summer 2010, winter 2010, ...) for various courses (BSc, BTech, ...) and for various semesters (final year, second semester, ...).
So we can create three custom taxonomies viz. Season, Course and Semester. What we want is SEO url with the help of custom WordPress taxonomies that will look like:
http://example.com/winter-2010/bsc/final-year/list-of-passed-candidates
Which you can set in your regular permalink structure options just like
/%season%/%course%/%semester%/%postname%/
NOTE: Currently this plugin do not help you to create custom taxonomies. You will need to use another plugin to create custom taxonomies.
Installation from zip file
- Go to Admin > Plugins > Add News and click on upload link.
- Browse the zip file and click upload
- Activate the plugin
Manual Installation
- Download the latest copy of Taxonomic SEO Permalink in .zip format
- Extract the zip file and Upload to the '/wp-content/plugins/' directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
After Installation
Go to Admin Menu >> Settings >> Permalink and change the permalink structure having your custom taxonomy. For example:
/%season%/%course%/%semester%/%postname%/
0.3.1
Now supports sub-taxonomy (read FAQ for details)
0.2.1
Uploaded the missing code.
0.2.0
Did some major changes to the code.
No need to manage sequence of taxonomy.
Should work on Network blog, but not tested yet.
0.1.3
Works on WP Network Site.
0.1.2
Solved minor bugs
0.1.1
Solved url parsing problem
0.1.0 Beta
- Need to edit taxonomies in php file of plugin