MaikKleinert Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 Site URL: https://www.maikkleinert.com/digital-product/p/cinema-grade-discount-code Hello, Where can I change the Slug or URL so that I not the the /p/ in my URL links. I guess these are the product categories but can I remove this? Website Shop link: https://www.maikkleinert.com/digital-product/p/cinema-grade-discount-code I am looking for this option -> https://www.maikkleinert.com/digital-product/cinema-grade-discount-code Thornwolf 1 Link to comment
Solution paul2009 Posted February 2, 2021 Solution Share Posted February 2, 2021 (edited) TL;DR Product URLs always include a /p/ before the customisable URL slug on Squarespace 7.1. You cannot remove or change it. The "p" appearing in the browser's address bar shouldn't have any negative effects for customers or merchants. However, if you are coming to Squarespace from another platform and have previously used URLs with a different format, you can use URL mappings to redirect users from your old URL to the new one with the 'p'. For example, if both your old and new sites used 'store' as the store URL slug, and the same names for the products, you could use the following mapping to automatically redirect all old product pages to the new format: /store/[name] -> /store/p/[name] 301 Longer Explanation When Squarespace overhauled Squarespace 7.1 Store pages in 2020 with the launch of "Product Collections 2.0" they introduced a number of new features that laid the foundation for modern e-commerce experiences on Squarespace stores. They increased the product limit from 200 products to 10,000 products on a single Store page and, to improve the experience for customers and merchants, they added support for up to 1000 categories and provided new SEO-optimized category URLs that didn't require URL queries. For example, a stationery store selling blue notebooks may have a category URL slug of /store/notebooks/blue instead of /store?category=blue. To accommodate the improved SEO for online stores, they needed a way to distinguish individual product pages (known as Product Detail Pages or PDPs) so they added the '/p/' in the URL slug of PDPs. For example, if you had a product called "Notebooks" and a category called "Notebooks" then the category URL slug would be /store/notebooks the product detail page URL slug would be /store/p/notebooks Note that this forum is not routinely monitored for product feature requests but if you want to raise a feature request with Squarespace, you can open a ticket through Customer Care. They'll document your feedback and share it with the appropriate team. Edited August 7, 2022 by paul2009 Added details of redirect EarvinChong, KoriLinae and jaisequoia 2 1 Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
vjkdesigns Posted February 11, 2021 Share Posted February 11, 2021 Site URL: https://www.theempathykit.com/shop/p/vapor-bath-and-shower-treatment Super annoying. I recently upgrade to 7.1. I saw it was added but didn't realize I couldn't remove it later. Does anyone know the code on how to change it? I could live with how stupid it looks, but the biggest problem is that it breaks every QR code that I have built into product labels! Now I have to recreate every QR code. I have dozens of products, so I'd need to buy more labels, ink, remove existing labels, put the new ones on if this issue isn't resolved. (And I have a feeling that once I did all that, SS would finally respond and change it back.) Sorry but I am angry. It was a lot of work to do the redesign. One more reason to move to another platform... Botbot 1 Link to comment
KaitlinAdams Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 I think I figured out the easiest work around for this. Do a 301 URL redirect as described here: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-redirects#toc-format-redirects In summary, you go to settings -> advanced -> URL Mappings -> add this to the box (obviously replacing "product1" with your products URL: /shop/product1 -> /shop/p/product1 301 Then your old link will just redirect to the new URL. This doesn't get rid of it like the original poster was hoping for but can help avoid having to make a bunch of changes to old links (or physical QR codes like the second poster). jaisequoia and creedon 2 Link to comment
Botbot Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 On 2/12/2021 at 3:46 AM, vjkdesigns said: Site URL: https://www.theempathykit.com/shop/p/vapor-bath-and-shower-treatment Super annoying. I recently upgrade to 7.1. I saw it was added but didn't realize I couldn't remove it later. Does anyone know the code on how to change it? I could live with how stupid it looks, but the biggest problem is that it breaks every QR code that I have built into product labels! Now I have to recreate every QR code. I have dozens of products, so I'd need to buy more labels, ink, remove existing labels, put the new ones on if this issue isn't resolved. (And I have a feeling that once I did all that, SS would finally respond and change it back.) Sorry but I am angry. It was a lot of work to do the redesign. One more reason to move to another platform... Trying to get rid of it too, no idea why would Squarespace even do that... Thornwolf 1 Link to comment
MilitzaOrtiz Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Unbelievable! I made the change too and I have to redirect 65 products, this is absurd. I am so mad Thornwolf, Caroline_Smith and KoriLinae 3 Link to comment
Senseinsight Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 Hi All, I tried to redirect using the advanced URL mappings but didn't get anywhere. I am trying to change the URL from /shop/p/productname (i.e. possum earrings) to /shop/product/productname website: www.animaliajewellery.com Any help would be much appreciated ❤️ S Thornwolf 1 Link to comment
paul2009 Posted July 31, 2022 Share Posted July 31, 2022 3 hours ago, Senseinsight said: I am trying to change the URL from /shop/p/productname (i.e. possum earrings) to /shop/product/productname As I stated above, product URLs always include a /p/ before the customisable URL slug on Squarespace 7.1. You cannot remove or change it. jaisequoia and KoriLinae 2 Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
Thornwolf Posted August 6, 2022 Share Posted August 6, 2022 Just ran into this problem too and it's absolute nonsense. Why did Squarespace do this and are there plans to undo this in the future? We need reasons, not "that's just the way it is", especially when we've promoted our products with specific URLs and suddenly they're changing. It looks sloppy, it looks like nonsense, and it doesn't give us a way to fix it. Please answer WHY not just that it happened and there's nothing we can do about it. Link to comment
paul2009 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 13 hours ago, Thornwolf said: Why did Squarespace do this and are there plans to undo this in the future? This was to allow for new SEO-optimized category URLs that were introduced in 2020. It shouldn't have any negative effects for customers, the majority of who will never see individual page URLs as their browser will only show the site name or domain name. For more details see my post above. Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
vesa.koskelainen Posted October 18, 2022 Share Posted October 18, 2022 This tutorial was very good and it helped me to solve the problem https://launchhubstudio.com/blog/how-to-remove-the-p-in-squarespace-71-product-urls Link to comment
ShopOffWhite Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Hello everybody, there is a /p/ in all URL products now we have installed the new version 7.1 please see screen shot attached hope someone could help Best from south of France Nelly www.shopoffwhite.com Link to comment
tuanphan Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 39 minutes ago, ShopOffWhite said: Hello everybody, there is a /p/ in all URL products now we have installed the new version 7.1 please see screen shot attached hope someone could help Best from south of France Nelly www.shopoffwhite.com You try this comment Email me if you have need any help (free, of course.). Answer within 24 hours. Or send to forum message Contact Customer Care - Learn CSS - Buy me a coffee (thank you!) Link to comment
ShopOffWhite Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Thank you I can read there is no way to remove this P for Product on 7.1.. need to check all items as i have some wrong product URL that not match the previous version 😞 Link to comment
paul2009 Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 52 minutes ago, ShopOffWhite said: there is a /p/ in all URL products now we have installed the new version 7.1 As explained above, this is normal. You cannot remove it. If you used the upgrade tool to upgrade from 7.0 to 7.1 it will have automatically created a URL mapping for you so that old 7.0 links are redirected to the newer format URLs. If you didn't use the upgrade tool, you can create a rule manually. Me: I'm Paul, a SQSP user for >18 yrs & Circle Leader since 2017. I value honesty, transparency, diversity and good design ♥. Work: Founder of SF.DIGITAL. We provide high quality original extensions to supercharge your Squarespace website. Content: Views and opinions are my own. Links in my posts may refer to my own SF.DIGITAL products or may be affiliate links. Forum advice is completely free. You can thank me by selecting a feedback emoji. Buying a coffee is generous but optional. Would you like your customers to be able to mark their favourite products in your Squarespace store? Link to comment
joannalynntong Posted Friday at 02:50 PM Share Posted Friday at 02:50 PM I just upgraded my website (talacoffeeroasters.com) from 7.0 to 7.1, and per this discussion, I thought I would need to do all my own URL re-directs, but Squarespace did them all automatically. I thought I would point that out for those looking to do the switch! Link to comment
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