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No Category Permalink

Remove category base from WordPress permalinks

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3release downloads
v1.0.4latest · 5mo ago

Install

Download no-category-permalink-1.0.4.zip From the v1.0.4 release on GitHub, May 30, 2026

Upload it under Plugins → Add New Plugin → Upload Plugin, then activate.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/randomwire/no-category-permalink/releases/download/v1.0.4/no-category-permalink-1.0.4.zip
Updates itself. It ships its own updater, so new versions appear under Dashboard → Updates.

Removes the category base from WordPress category URLs.

Changes example.com/category/news/ to example.com/news/

Features

  • Cleaner, more SEO-friendly URLs
  • Automatic 301 redirects from old URLs
  • No configuration required
  • Lightweight with no database queries

Requirements

  • WordPress 6.0+
  • PHP 7.4+

Installation

See readme.txt for installation instructions.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later

Releases

1 release. Each count is every asset in that release; expand a row for the breakdown.

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v1.0.4 latest
May 30, 2026 5mo ago
no-category-permalink-1.0.4.zip
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