How can I remove '/pages/' from my website URL?

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner wants to remove ‘/pages/’ from their page URLs to create cleaner links (e.g., changing /pages/DIY to just /DIY).

Current Limitation:

  • Shopify’s URL structure cannot be directly modified; ‘/pages/’ is a fixed component that cannot be removed through the SEO settings.

Suggested Workarounds:

  • URL Redirect: Create a redirect in Online Store > Navigation > URL Redirects, mapping the desired clean URL (/DIY) to the actual Shopify URL (/pages/DIY). Visitors using the shorter link will be automatically redirected.
  • Advanced Option: Use a proxy service like CloudFlare Workers for URL rewriting, though this is considered excessive effort for minimal benefit.

Community Reaction:

  • Multiple users express frustration with Shopify’s inflexible URL structure, calling it a workaround rather than a true solution.
  • One participant shares a video tutorial claiming to offer a solution for custom URL structures.

The discussion remains focused on technical workarounds rather than native platform solutions.

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Hi,

one of my pages is under www.annas-blumenpoesie.de/pages/DIY. I want to remove the /pages/ so that the URL looks like www.annas-blumenpoesie.de/DIY.

Any idea how this can be accomplished? in the page menu under SEO it cant be changed because the /pages/ is a fix part of the URL.
My theme is testament and the pw to enter the page is ublick.

Thanks!

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Hi @huks ,

You cannot actually change the URL structure of a Shopify store. What you could do though, if your intent is to create a cleaner URL for sharing, is create a URL redirect. You can go to Online Store > Navigation, click on URL Redirects, and add a new redirect from /DIY to /pages/DIY. This way when a visitor uses the www.annas-blumenpoesie.de/DIY link, they will be instantly redirected to the Shopify URL.

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Technically you could do this through some kind of URL rewrite with a proxy in front of Shopify. Could theoretically do it with CloudFlare Workers.

Would be a lot of mucking around for very minimal gain imo.

If you’re going to go to these kind of extremes to tackle Shopify URL-isms there are bigger things to fix first like the lack of sub-categorisation or duplicate URL’s for the same product existing.

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It’s nauseating that this is the only solution, given it’s not actually a solution, but a workaround. Shameful bleep. (Not you of course, but this clunky product).

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Thank You SOOOOO much I did it and its working :folded_hands:

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Totally agree this is crazy.

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Here is the solution to remove /pages and create custom URL structure.