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fisheye/module-url-rewrite-optimiser
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A Magento module that stops URL rewrites with category paths being generated for products when 'Use Categories Path for Product URLs' setting is disabled in config.

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Fisheye\_UrlRewriteOptimiser
============================

[](#fisheye_urlrewriteoptimiser)

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

A Magento module that stops URL rewrites with category paths being generated for products when 'Use Categories Path for Product URLs' setting is disabled in config.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Stop needless URL rewrites for products that include category paths being created
- Only applies when 'Use Categories Path for Product URLs' setting is set to 'No'

> Note: this extension will only prevent category path based URL rewrites from being created. Removing existing URL rewrites will need to be managed separately (though may be added in a future version).

Issue
-----

[](#issue)

To highlight the issue (and purpose of this module) see the 2 scenarios below

### Without module enabled

[](#without-module-enabled)

[![Without module enabled](./media/url-rewrites-with-categories.jpg)](./media/url-rewrites-with-categories.jpg)

- 'Joust Duffle Bag' product is in 2 categories ('Gear' and 'Bags')
- 4 product URL rewrite records are created for this product
    - 1 for the direct product URL
    - 3 for category path URLS (2 for the categories the product is associated to and also the root category...)
- Overall 580 product URL rewrite records are created (using Magento's default sample data of 189 visible products and 39 categories)

### With module enabled

[](#with-module-enabled)

[![Without module enabled](./media/url-rewrites-without-categories.jpg)](./media/url-rewrites-without-categories.jpg)

- 'Joust Duffle Bag' product now just has 1 URL rewrite record for the direct path
- Overall reduced to 189 product URL rewrite records (i.e. 1 per visible product)
- Scale that up to thousands of products, categories, websites and store views and the space saved in the `url_rewrite` table could be huge!

Compatibility
-------------

[](#compatibility)

- PHP 7.x
- Magento Open Source / Commerce Edition 2.1.x / 2.2.x (may work on older versions, but untested)

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require fisheye/module-url-rewrite-optimiser
php bin/magento module:enable Fisheye_UrlRewriteOptimiser
php bin/magento setup:upgrade

```

Cleanup
-------

[](#cleanup)

If you installed this extension to prevent product rewrites with a category path being generated and you want to clean up your existing rewrites by removing them, run this query;

```
DELETE FROM url_rewrite
  WHERE is_autogenerated = 1          AND request_path LIKE '%/%'
  AND target_path LIKE '%/category/%' AND target_path  LIKE '%/product/%'
  AND entity_type = 'product'         AND metadata     LIKE '%category_id%';
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Issues, forks and pull requests welcomed :)

###  Health Score

42

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FairBetter than 90% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity47

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 76.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~504 days

Total

4

Last Release

1299d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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