{"id":39087,"date":"2023-04-07T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/knowledge-base\/?post_type=article&p=39087"},"modified":"2025-08-22T08:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:29:39","slug":"filters-url-structure-settings-overview","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/crocoblock.com\/knowledge-base\/jetsmartfilters\/filters-url-structure-settings-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Filter URL Structure Settings Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Head to WordPress Dashboard > Smart Filters > Settings<\/em><\/strong>. Open the URL Structure Settings <\/strong>tab to adjust the needed settings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check more information about the tab settings in the Filter Settings Overview<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"url<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n

URL Structure Type<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Here, you have two options: \u201cPlain\u201d and \u201cPermalink.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you pick the \u201cPermalink\u201d option, you can select what post types or taxonomies URLs will be rewritten as the permalinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We advise you not to toggle on all the options and enable only the needed ones to make your website work faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What works better for SEO<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPlain\u201d is the default option. It works on all server environments, but is not user-friendly and not optimized for search engines because it contains the unique ID of the post or page from the database, which is unreadable by search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPermalink\u201d can contain words such as the title of the post or page, post category, and tag name, which can be keys by which the page will be located and ranked in the search engine results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filter URLs indexing can also positively affect search results under certain conditions, so we recommend selecting the \u201cPermalinks\u201d option for search engine optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can pick the \u201cPlain\u201d option if you don\u2019t want filter URLs to be indexed by the search system, e.g., if you have enough categories on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to fix some issues that occur on archive pages with filters<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Here you can fix an issue that can occur due to the specifics of WordPress’s work. You need these settings if you use filters on the archive page of some post type. In that case, when you enable the filter, a set of tags is added to the URL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, if you reload the page, it will appear that there is no page with such a URL because it does not match the website’s Permalink <\/strong>settings. To fix that issue, you have to rewrite the URL as a permalink, and you can do it on the URL Structure Settings<\/strong> page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose the \u201cPermalink\u201d option, and toggle on the needed post type. The URL of the chosen post type will be rewritten as a permalink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Choose only those post types where you meet the described issue to avoid extra pressure on the website\u2019s page loading speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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URL Aliases<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Proceed to the How to Create URL Aliases<\/strong><\/a> tutorial to learn more about aliases for filter URLs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all. Now you know more about filter URL structure settings for the JetSmartFilters <\/em>WordPress plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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