How to remove product-category slug in WooCommerce?

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I was trying to figure out how to remove product category slug in WooCommerce (eg: remove /product-category/ ) from my URLs category and I just couldn’t seem to remove it.

For eg: /product-category/frock

I just wanted to be /frock

Finally, I got a quick solution to do this task.

It works for me, and it might work for you.

How to remove product category slug in woocommerce without plugin.

You have to follow few steps and setup the rules to do this task. The code is experimental and it is better to avoid using it at production sites. This is exactly what you need to remove the slug from the category pages.

Step-1: Change product category base field of the permalinks page

Enter a “.” in the product category base field of the permalinks page.  This will help to generate the urls around the site like we want.

Step-2: Be sure you don’t have any page, post with the same name (slug)

Be sure that you don’t have any page, post or attachment with the same name (slug) as the category page or they will collide and the code won’t work.

Step-3: Copy and Paste below code:

You have to copy and paste below code in functions.php file of your current theme folder:

/*
Code Purpose : Remove woocommerce product-category slug
Author: Tutorialswebsite
*/
 
add_filter('request', function( $vars ) {
	global $wpdb;
	if( ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) || ! empty( $vars['category_name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['name'] ) || ! empty( $vars['attachment'] ) ) {
		$slug = ! empty( $vars['pagename'] ) ? $vars['pagename'] : ( ! empty( $vars['name'] ) ? $vars['name'] : ( !empty( $vars['category_name'] ) ? $vars['category_name'] : $vars['attachment'] ) );
		$exists = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare( "SELECT t.term_id FROM $wpdb->terms t LEFT JOIN $wpdb->term_taxonomy tt ON tt.term_id = t.term_id WHERE tt.taxonomy = 'product_cat' AND t.slug = %s" ,array( $slug )));
		if( $exists ){
			$old_vars = $vars;
			$vars = array('product_cat' => $slug );
			if ( !empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) || !empty( $old_vars['page'] ) )
				$vars['paged'] = ! empty( $old_vars['paged'] ) ? $old_vars['paged'] : $old_vars['page'];
			if ( !empty( $old_vars['orderby'] ) )
	 	        	$vars['orderby'] = $old_vars['orderby'];
      			if ( !empty( $old_vars['order'] ) )
 			        $vars['order'] = $old_vars['order'];	
		}
	}
	return $vars;
});
 
add_filter('term_link', 'term_link_filter', 10, 3);
function term_link_filter( $url, $term, $taxonomy ) {
    $url=str_replace("/./","/",$url);
     return $url;
}

Feel free to test the code and let me know if it’s not working on any particular case. I only tried with two levels of category and pagination, nothing else.