Title: Need help setting up permalink structure
Last modified: November 6, 2017

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# Need help setting up permalink structure

 *  Resolved [des1gn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/des1gn/)
 * (@des1gn)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-setting-up-permalink-structure/)
 * hi there
 * i’m searching for the right permalink structure setup for my shop and i hope 
   someone could help me achieving what i want.
 * **situation**
    i have a regular wordpress page residing at _/shop_. i want this
   site to act as my shops main page, but without woocommerce interacting with it/
   replacing its content. the site is set up as i want it do be, without the need
   of woo’s generated content.
 * **what i like to achieve**
    i’d like to have a permalink structure depict the
   following
 * – Shop Main
    _/shop_
 * – Categories
    _/shop/parent-cat(/child-cat)/_
 * – Products
    _/shop/parent-cat(/child-cat)/product-slug_
 * **what i’ve already tried**
    on woocommerce settings. if i set my shop page as
   woocommerce _Shop page_, the page’s content is replaced with woocommerce cat 
   content. thats not what i want.
 * on permalink settings
    if i set the _Product category base_ to “shop” and the
   _Product permalinks_ to “/shop/%product_cat%/” the product links are working 
   fine, but the category links lead to page not found.
 * if i set the _Product category base_ to “shop” and the _Product permalinks_ to
   _Shop base_ “/shop/” the category links are working fine, but the product links
   lead to page not found.
 * So i think i might be doing something completely wrong. but i can’t figure out
   what to do to achieve the wanted structure.
    i hope someone can help me out and
   point me to the right direction.
 * thanks in advance to all

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 *  [MechielCouvaras](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mechielcouvaras/)
 * (@mechielcouvaras)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-setting-up-permalink-structure/#post-9755465)
 * Hi,
 * It sounds like ‘**Shop base with category**‘ is the permalink structure that 
   will get you what you want.
 * The WooCommerce shop page is a special archive that lists your products. [You can read more about this here](https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-pages/#section-4).
 * You can also choose which products to display on the Shop page by changing the‘**
   Shop page display**‘ drop down under WooCommerce>Settings>Products>Display.
 * In addition to these settings, your theme may also be using a specific template
   for the shop page which might have it’s own custom options.
 *  [Erina (a11n)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eri32s98/)
 * (@eri32s98)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-setting-up-permalink-structure/#post-9807516)
 * We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved.
   If you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

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