Can remove word ‘category’ from categories links?

  • Resolved Pierrick

    (@artpie)


    13 years, 10 months ago

    Hi All,

    Currently the categories links on my blog include the word ‘category’ eg …/category/SEO

    Is there anyway to remove the word ‘category’?

    Id removed, do I need to set up redirect at all?

    Thanks for your help
    P

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  • misterpatrick67

    (@misterpatrick67)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Yes, in Settings/Permalinks change the option Category Base to /.

    The period need to be there, it’s not just punctuation here. So:

    /.

    That should fix it.

    Thread Starter Pierrick

    (@artpie)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Brilliant. It did the trick.
    Thanks

    Thread Starter Pierrick

    (@artpie)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Actually, it does not work!
    Although it does remove the word ‘category’, I either get the 404 page when for some category pages or when the category page is there, no posts related to that category is listed.

    Help!
    Cheers

    P

    Thread Starter Pierrick

    (@artpie)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    It may be worth to mention that I inserted /. but when I save the changes the / seems to disappear

    Thanks

    misterpatrick67

    (@misterpatrick67)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Yeah, the / does that. Check that your permalink slugs are pointing to the right page, that can often cause the problem.

    Thread Starter Pierrick

    (@artpie)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    Thanks. I am not using slugs for your permalinks… Can you think of anything else?

    Cheers
    P

    Thread Starter Pierrick

    (@artpie)

    13 years, 10 months ago

    I found the plugin called ‘wp-no-category-base plugin’ and it did the trick. I just had to install it and activate it and the job was done. Brilliant

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