url How can I remove the /p/ in my Product URL ?

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

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... 

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). 

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...

Unbelievable! I made the change too and I have to redirect 65 products, this is absurd.  I am so mad

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

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

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

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 😞

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.