Is There Any Way to Abbreviate State Names in Slugs?

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January 28, 2018 at 7:46 am #414678

Jason Gillespie
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Is There Any Way to Abbreviate State Names in the Slugs?

Hope I posted this in the right place…

Example:

http://demo.com/places/south-carolina/greenville/morimoto/

to:

http://demo.com/places/sc/greenville/morimoto/

Reason I ask is Google’s clamping down on long URLs. And more people type abbreviations for the state vs the state full name.

Would be FABULOUS if we could abbreviate the state name slugs. All the big box company directories use abbreviations. Example: Home Advisor, Yellow Book, Angies List, Houzz, etc…

January 28, 2018 at 8:58 am #414684

Guust
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You can do that by editing locations every time as they are added. The problem you will have if you have users add listings, is that the Google API will create a new state again called /south-carolina/.

See more at
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/faqs/how-do-i-merge-locations/
and
https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/definitions/#location

Thanks

January 29, 2018 at 8:42 am #414754

Jason Gillespie
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Yeah, I was tinkering around with it. I would love to have the option to only abbreviate the state name slug and nothing else. If I do it that way it messes more up than its worth.

You know what I mean.

Thank you for the help!

January 29, 2018 at 9:38 am #414767

Guust
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You’re welcome 🙂
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