Mickey Kay

MIGHTYminnow

Compatible with PHP 8.2
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This plugin is meant to solve the problem of highlighting “parent” pages for Custom Post Types in the menu and lists of pages. It integrates with custom menu output as well as output for any functions like <code>wp_list_pages()</code> that utilize the <code>page_css_class</code> or <code>nav_menu_css_class</code> filters. When viewing a custom post type, the assigned “parent page” will be indicated with standard WordPress classes (e.g. current_page_item) in navigation menus and lists of pages.
<h4>Usage</h4>
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<li>In the admin, navigate to Settings > Custom Post Type Parents</li>
<li>For each custom post type, use the dropdown to select a “parent page”</li>
</ol>
Menus and lists of pages will now have the appropriate classes applied to the specified parent pages. Additionally, Custom Post Type Parents will apply these classes to <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-section-navigation/" rel="ugc">Simple Section Navigation</a> widgets, if the plugin is installed.
<h4>Classes</h4>
Custom Post Type Parents applies the following classes to parent and ancestor pages (all classes are consistent with default WordPress classes and are backwards compatible).
Parent 
* current-menu-parent 
* current_page_parent 
* current-custom-post-type-parent 
* current-{post type}-parent
Ancestor 
* current-menu-ancestor 
* current_page_ancestor 
* current-custom-post-type-ancestor 
* current-{post type}-ancestor

Custom Post Type Parents

Set a "parent page" for custom post types that is indicated in menus, lists of pages, and the Simple Section Navigation widget.

alekc

Sometimes you don’t want to show parent directories in permalink because they are not really necessary or because you know that in the future your child directory will change it’s parent.
For example: 
+Work in progress 
–Site 1 
–Site 2 
+Work Finished 
–Site 3
In this case Site 3 originally have been part of “Work in progress”, and on job done it has been moved under “Work Finished”.
So if you install this plugin your link will be transformed in this way:
domain.com/parent_category/child_directory/post_name => domain.com/child_directory/post_name 
domain.com/category/parent_category => domain.com/parent_category 
domain.com/category/parent_category/child_directory => domain.com/parent_category/child_directory

Remove Parents

Remove Parents is a tiny plugin which remove "category" and parent categories from permalink.

Custom Post Type Parents vs Remove Parents