URL structure for same product in multiple categories?

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Hello everyone !

I am building an ecom store using wordpress.

I have assigned multiple categories to the same product. What should be the URL structure when users are navigating with different product categories?

Categories Assigned: tshirt, blue, striped
Product Name: blue-striped-tshirt

Option 01:

Matching site navigation breadcrumb to product url

URL - ecomstore.com/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt
Breadcrumb - home/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt

URL - ecomstore.com/blue/blue-striped-tshirt (canonical to 1 product page)
Breadcrumb - home/color/blue/blue-striped-tshirt

URL - ecomstore.com/striped/blue-striped-tshirt (canonical to 1 product page)
Breadcrumb - home/type/striped/blue-striped-tshirt

Option 02:

Same product urls and different breadcrumbs based on user site navigation

URL - ecomstore.com/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt
Breadcrumb - home/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt

URL - ecomstore.com/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt (url same as 1 product page)
Breadcrumb - home/color/blue/blue-striped-tshirt

URL - ecomstore.com/tshirt/blue-striped-tshirt (url same as 1 product page)
Breadcrumb - home/type/striped/blue-striped-tshirt

I have decided to got with Option 01 so that the product in each category can be ranked according to each category keyword.

Which option is the best according to your experience or is there any other best practice?
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    Originally Posted by Scotty Mandom View Post

    Which option is the best according to your experience or is there any other best practice?
    I would be looking at "Tags" and "Attributes" . You start playing with Categories and you quickly find yourself in the mess of parent and child Categories... and that sends you down the hole of custom Taxonomy.

    I cant say that I have used this, but from looking at it, it gets you in the right direction ( https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/...oducts-filter/ ) I personally use SearchWP across all of my sites and love it.. But i have been using it since forever ago - so I am sure I am biased.
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  • Profile picture of the author zainsultan
    Yes, I also want to suggest you 01 idea, Matching the site navigation breadcrumb to the product URL.
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