{"id":4750,"date":"2018-05-14T18:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phpyouth.com\/blog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2025-10-13T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:41:20","slug":"make-taxonomy-slug-seo-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phpyouth.com\/blog\/make-taxonomy-slug-seo-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Taxonomy Slug SEO Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Friends,
\nToday, we will talk about how to make our website taxonomy slugs SEO friendly<\/strong>. First, we will give you a tip for SEO Friendly URL<\/em>, this is an important part to make a website SEO friendly. Sometimes developers use underscores<\/em> to separate words in the URL of Pages\/Posts instead of using dashes<\/em>. Underscore<\/em> is a bad thing in a URL from a SEO perspective. If you want to make a website SEO friendly, then we have to use dashes<\/em> instead of underscores<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Wait, let me show you an example, the URL in the screenshot is not an SEO friendly URL:<\/p>\n

\"underscore<\/a><\/p>\n

Above is an example of a single Portfolio page, where you will see that there is an underscore<\/em> that separates\u00a0portfolio & items<\/em> in the URL. Many paid WordPress themes don’t have the feature to make a custom slug for these types of taxonomies, like Portfolio, Courses, etc…<\/p>\n

So today, we will learn how to make taxonomy slug SEO friendly<\/strong>. Friends, you have to follow the steps below:<\/p>\n

STEP 1:<\/strong> Open your activated child theme\u2019s folder, then locate the functions.php file. Now, copy the code below and paste it at the end of that file.<\/p>\n

\nfunction py_modify_taxonomy() {\n    \/\/ get the arguments of the already-registered taxonomy\n    $people_category_args = get_taxonomy( &#039;projects_category&#039; );\n    $people_category_args-&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; gt;show_admin_column = true;\n    $people_category_args-&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;rewrite[&#039;slug&#039;] = &#039;projects&#039;;\n    $people_category_args-&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp; gt; rewrite[&#039;with_front&#039;] = false;\n\n<pre><code>\/\/ re-register the taxonomy\nregister_taxonomy( &amp;#039;projects_category&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;projects&amp;#039;, (array) $people_category_args );\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n}\n\/\/ hook it up to 11 so that it overrides the original register_taxonomy function\nadd_action( &#039;init&#039;, &#039;py_modify_taxonomy&#039;, 11 );\n<\/pre>\n
STEP 2:<\/strong> In the above code, replace ‘project_category’ with either ‘projects’ or ‘project-category’. After that, update your functions.php file to apply the changes.<\/p>\n
STEP 3:<\/strong> After updating the functions.php file, go to Settings > Permalinks.<\/p>\n
\"setting-permalinks\"<\/a><\/p>\n
STEP 4:<\/strong> On the Permalinks page, scroll to the bottom and hit the Publish <\/em>button. You will see that underscores <\/em>have been replaced with either text or a dash as per your need. Thanks<\/p>\n
\"Slug<\/a><\/p>\n
\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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