Remove Category Slug in WordPress

For managing content, Categories plays a vital role to put content into similar topic. By default, WordPress will create a not-so-good looking slug for category:

http://yourdomain.com/category/category1

Sometimes, when using WordPress as CMS, this looks so unprofessional. A better category slug for category should be:

http://yourdomain.com/category1

While there are some folks suggesting to tweak the .htaccess file, I find a better and easy way to remove the /category/ for category slug.

Introducing WP No Category Base plugin.

The plugin works out of the box, no settings required. The great thing is it will take care of redirecting your old category links to the new ones, so it won’t leave your site with all those 404 Error Not Found links.

Features (as stated in the plugin page) :

• Better and logical permalinks like yourdomain.com/my-category/ and myblog.com/my-category/my-post/.
• Simple plugin - barely adds any overhead.
• Works out of the box - no setup needed.
• No need to modify wordpress files.
• Doesn’t require other plugins to work.
• Compatible with sitemap plugins.
• Works with multiple sub-categories.
• Works with WordPress Multisite.
• Redirects old category permalinks to the new ones (301 redirect, good for SEO).

So, go ahead. Install and activate the plugin for a better looking category archive page.