How to: Remove /category/ from your WordPress url
OK, this is a very annoying issue when you are using wordpress. For SEO purposes you select your perma links to be of a certain format. But once you select the url format it does not use what you selected and keep inserting the actual “Category” name with in the URL. This is very annoying when you are trying to get rid of this category string from the URL.
I’ve tried various things including modifying the php files within wordpress but still without any luck until I tried this….
So if you wanted to get rid of this category keyword here is what to do…
In the Permalinks options, set the "Custom Structure" to
/%category%/%postname%/
and your "Category Base" to
/.
By the way if you still have not improved your URL structure for Wordpress then I would do it immediately because it is very important for the SEO for your site. For example it is always a good idea to include the keywords that you are targeting within the URL. Things like the domain name and URL count heavily with search engines when they rank your site for specific keywords.
Please let me know whether this worked for you, and if you have any suggestions or questions by leaving a comment below.