FV Top Level Categories

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ thepiper

   6.0y ago

   It works fine

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2. ★★★★★ ADigitalMark

   6.2y ago

   Simple. Light on code. Easy to understand interface. Handles redirects by itself. Works immediately, without breaking anything else. A delight to have discovered it. I can recommend this to anyone wanting to remove the word, ‘category,’ from their WordPress URLs for child categories.

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3. ★★★★★ aplusdesign

   8.3y ago

   Does as labelled, removed /category/ from all my category links generated by WordPress, did not break pagination!

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4. ★★★★★ Pt

   9.3y ago

   After some frustration trying to remove ‘category’ form WordPress URL slugs by other means, this solved the problem. Works with pagination in Avada 5.1.6.

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5. ★★★★★ bamajr

   10.3y ago

   If you run into pagination issues when using the: /%category%/%postname%/ …Custom Permalink Structure, you will want this plugin!

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6. ★★★★★ SuzuKube

   10.3y ago

   Nothing to do. Just perfect. Thank you

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7. ★★★★★ greguh

   10.4y ago

   works perfectly, nothing to do and even some humour into the settings (it took make a minute to see url changes and understand that it was a joke hehe) thanks !!

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8. ★★★★★ silkway

   11.3y ago

   You should note that it is simply a code, that can be found in the internet. YES, there are some limitations that could be pointed out by plugin developers (for example, it does not work for non-latin URLs and can make a mess after being deactivated) and errors caused by users that use some imcompatible code in some of their files while searching for a solution. BUT, some nice guys keep updating it for you 😉 So, respect their work. If you have any code with workarounds – please, share. If you do not have workarounds – learn PHP. )))

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.9.1 Assing GPL license info Tested with WordPress 5.3 Bugfix for AMP category URLs 1.9.1
2. — Version 1.9 Bugfix for AMP category URLs 1.9
3. — Version 1.8.2 Self-checking for rewrite rules 1.8.2
4. — Version 1.8.1 Fix for PHP warnings 1.8.1
5. — Version 1.8 Fix for paginated category archives when using custom pagination_base – thanks to odie2! Fix for settings link in plugin row – thanks to odie2! 1.8
6. — Version 1.7 Added Polish translation – thanks to [email protected] Added Portuguese translation – thanks to Pedro Mendonça 1.7

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Translated into 69 languages, 5 at 90% or more · development strings

Plus 45 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• T Top Level Categories 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
• Custom Post Type Permalinks 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Custom Permalinks 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
• Permalink Manager Lite 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• List category posts 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A

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FV Top Level Categories: 20K+ active installs, 4.4★ (23 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fv-top-level-cats