Alter child permalinks to show within root. WordPress

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Building landing pages for SEO; would like to setup a clean admin experience by creating parent and child pages, however would like to remove the parent details from the permalink.

<strong>Example Page Structure:</strong>

Home
About
- Sub About One
- Sub About Two
- Sub About Three
Contact

<strong>Example Default Permalinks:</strong>

http://you.com/
http://you.com/about
http://you.com<strong>/about/</strong>sub-about-one
http://you.com<strong>/about/</strong>sub-about-two
http://you.com<strong>/about/</strong>sub-about-three
http://you.com/contact

<strong>Desired Permalinks:</strong>

http://you.com/
http://you.com/about
http://you.com/sub-about-one
http://you.com/sub-about-two
http://you.com/sub-about-three
http://you.com/contact

<strong>Summary:</strong>

Remove the parent page information from all child permalinks.

<em>Any suggestions you can provide would be much appreciated!</em>

Answers (2)

2011-07-06

Svilen Popov answers:

Try the [[LINK href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-permalinks/"]]Custom Permalinks[[/LINK]]

2011-07-06

Luke America answers:

Instead of using the old-style menus by creating the page-node tree, try using the new WP 3.0+ menu structure.

Here's some pertinent info:

[[LINK href="http://www.unitz.com/u-notez/2010/05/how-to-use-the-wordpress-3-menus-feature/"]]How To Use The WordPress 3 Menus Feature[[/LINK]]

and

[[LINK href="http://templatic.com/news/wordpress-3-0-menu-management"]]WordPress 3.0 Menu Management[[/LINK]]

With the new system, you position the menu items wherever you want them without having to nest one under another in the URI structure.