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

by Themeisle · SEO

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

⚠ Declining

76 Health · B

Maintenance 100

Rating quality 80

Support 70

Momentum 25

Active installs

50K+

Total downloads

526.1K

Rating (adjusted)

4.17★

4.2★ raw · 58 reviews

Downloads · 30d

5.3K -70%

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,375 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-70%

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

wp.org reports only “50K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

50K–60K ≈54K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1377 daily snapshots

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