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1. misterm2009
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   I have permalinks enables and have set /%category%/%postname%/ as my custom stucture.

   This is causing the word "category" to appear in my urls when I browse to a category like thus:

   http://www.mysite.co.uk/category/art-and-crafts/

   when really I just want:

   http://www.mysite.co.uk/art-and-crafts/

   the word "category" then dissapears when I navigate to a post:

   http://www.mysite.co.uk/art-and-crafts/new-paintings

   Does anyone knwo how to get rid of "category" from the URL?

   many thanks

   D

2. Dagon Design
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Change the permalink structure from this:

   /%category%/%postname%/

   To this:

   /%postname%/

3. BPartch
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   From the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Using_only_.25postname.25

   %postname%
   A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post/Page panel). So “This Is A Great Post!” becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI (see Using only %postname%). Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.

   I have had issues doing it that way, such as previous/next links not working anymore and I cannot remember what else.

   I found this but have not tested it: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-category-from-your-wordpress-url

   There are also plugins.

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-no-category-base/
   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pathless-category-links/

   Off Topic: Thanks for the great Sitemap plugin Dagon Design

4. Dagon Design
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   BPartch: Nice work - I did not remember that it was not recommended :) Glad you like my plugin!

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