Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks

Description

Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.

Just activate, and you are done. No configuration needed.

Features include creating cleaner URLs like mydomain.com/my-category/ and mydomain.com/my-category/my-post/. It works out of the box with no settings to configure and supports multiple sub-categories. The plugin automatically 301 redirects old category URLs to the new structure, making it SEO-friendly. Sitemaps are automatically updated with the new URLs after activation, and it is compatible with WordPress Multisite, WPML, and popular sitemap plugins.

Removing the /category/ base in WordPress URLs does not help your visitors or search engines understand your content better. Cleaner paths like mydomain.com/news/ instead of mydomain.com/category/news/ are shorter, easier to remember and share, and more consistent with how your pages are already structured. Shorter URLs also tend to look better in search results and make your site feel more polished overall.

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Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks plugin.

Custom Permalinks

Remove Category Base

Remove Category Url

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Contributors and developers

“Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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