permalinks - Can two products with the same name but different category produce unique URLs?

In the permalinks settings I have /courses/%product_cat%. Using WooCommerce I created two different Courses that are named "English", but they have different categories that end up making my urls look like this:

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The Grade 12 URL is not ideal with the "-2" attached onto "physics". Is there anything I can do to remove that?

In the permalinks settings I have /courses/%product_cat%. Using WooCommerce I created two different Courses that are named "English", but they have different categories that end up making my urls look like this:

https://www.example.com/demo/chla/courses/grade-11/physics/
https://www.example.com/demo/chla/courses/grade-12/physics-2/

The Grade 12 URL is not ideal with the "-2" attached onto "physics". Is there anything I can do to remove that?

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• "physics" must be unique because it is the post_name ('slug') and does not depend on any taxonomy. – Max Yudin Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 12:24
• so my only option is to rename the slug? – Darren Bachan Commented Jan 21, 2017 at 22:26
• I am also stuck in this. Did you get any solution? – Manoj Mohan Commented May 17, 2018 at 16:29

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You get this behavior as following:

• Create a page as category name.
• A product page, make it child of your category.
• Use [product_page id="0"] to display a product.

You can now use the same product name in different categories.