WP Remove Category Base

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1. ★★★★★ GDY

   8.8y ago

   No settings and just does what it should. Activated an voila: gone is the category base.

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2. ★★★★★ neotrope

   9.7y ago

   Thanks; was working on a new slim WP theme for our main business in house, and wanted to avoid Yoast or other SEO plugins and “roll my own.” This helped me sort out the pesky /category/ slug, which really should be a built in on/off option in WP by now! Bravo! 🙂

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3. ★★★★★ Pat K

   10.2y ago

   Installed – activated and it works. Dead easy. Thanks for the plugin! PK

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4. ★★★★★ Matt Scheidler

   10.3y ago

   Literally 3 minutes ago I searched for “wordpress category base remove” in Google, found this one and installed. Success! Works with the latest 4.5.2.

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5. ★★★★★ radgh

   10.8y ago

   I honestly doubt this has any impact on SEO, especially since it’s only for category archive pages. The meat of SEO is on the content pages. But regardless, this plugin works just fine and does what it says without an issue. The SEO side affects are likely just a placebo however.

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6. ★★★★★ mark1230

   10.8y ago

   Really nice plugin http://wapkidclub.com/remove-category-wordpress-url.html

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7. ★★★★★ jeffreyd000

   11.2y ago

   Installed and activated and I was done! Works perfectly. Thank you !!!!

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8. ★★★★★ Mister.Leeland

   11.4y ago

   Just does what it says. Let’s you get rid of the /category/-slug.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.0 Initial release 1.0

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

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-06 9K+ → 8K+ down after 26 days in tier
2. 2026-04-10 10K+ → 9K+ down after 199 days in tier
3. 2025-09-23 20K+ → 10K+ down after 439 days in tier
4. 2024-07-11 30K+ → 20K+ down after 484 days in tier
5. 2023-03-15 20K+ → 30K+ up

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).

• No Category Base (WPML) 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks 40K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A
• No Category Parents 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
• CS Remove Category Base 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
• D Decategorizer 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D

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WP Remove Category Base: 8K+ active installs, 5.0★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-remove-category-base