This plugin allows you to select a main category (or taxonomy) for your posts for nicer permalinks and SEO.

How to get the chosen category using PHP?

Have a look at this thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-primary-category/#post-9055471

3.4.0

• Compatibility with PHP 7.2 by removing create_function calls. Thanks to David (https://github.com/jordymeow/wp-category-permalink/pull/3#issuecomment-443597831).

3.3.0

• Everything is released for free.

3.2.8

• Fix: WP 4.9.

3.2.7

• Fix: Name instead of Query Var.

3.2.6

• Fix: Avoid double trailing slashes.

3.2.4

• Fix: Trailing slashes.

3.2.3

• Fix: Display issues (heart icon was flying all over the place).
• Fix: Permalinks are handled in a much better way. More support for other plugins for custom permalinks.

3.2.2

• Fix: Handle events on the label instead of the li. Inject the link into the label too.
• Update: Additional error handling.

3.0.4

• Update: Enhance the way the post meta is handled.
• Fix: Now newly created categories can be selected.
• Fix: Pro version validation.

3.0.3

• Fix: The permalink below the title was showing a warning even though the category has been picked with a previous version of the plugin.
• Fix: The categories were not bold nor red on the Posts list. With Pro, that also works with WooCommerce well 🙂
• Fix: Issue from the past. If you can't seem to save your columns, you might need to run the query "DELETE FROM wp_usermeta WHERE meta_key LIKE '%wp_manageedit%'" on your DB, just once, to repair the View Screen options.

3.0.2

• Fix: Issue with multisite (with the includes).
• Add: Permalink shown below the title of the posts list (can be disabled in the option). Heart means a category has been picked, otherwise a little red warning is shown.
• Update: A lot of coding & UI improvements.

2.2.8

• Fix: Infinite hidden columns to user meta (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/infinite-user-meta).

2.0

• Fix: Update issue for non-WooCommerce user.
• Change: Let's make it 2.0 since it's a major change.

1.0

• Stable release.

0.1.4

• Add: default category will be shown in red if no category was picked.

1. Upload wp-category-permalink.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

Pick the category you'd like to have for the permalink.



Check your permalinks in the posts list. If a heart is present, it means a category (or taxonomy) has been chosen.