No, because categories need something in their URLs to distinguish them from pages.
Sigh… ok then. Thanks for the info.
Anonymous User 179266
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yes it is possible. paste these code to your templates function.php so you dont need to change core files or install any plugin
function kill_category_base($string) {
$string = str_replace('category/', '', $string);
return $string;
}
add_filter('category_link', 'kill_category_base');
thend leave blank your category permalink option. thats all.
credits goest to: http://www.brianshoff.com/wordpress/category-base-removal-plugin.htm
I modified the .htaccess so it can support category pagination and the rss feed permalinks.
# remove the category suffix - by Joan Piedra
# http://joanpiedra.com/wordpress/remove-category-suffix-permalink
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/(page/([0-9]+)|feed)$ index.php/category/$1/$2 [L]
# redirect everything else to wordpress
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L]
More info at:
http://joanpiedra.com/wordpress/remove-category-suffix-permalink/