Title: Changing category permalink
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Changing category permalink

 *  [ribhusingh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ribhusingh/)
 * (@ribhusingh)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-category-permalink/)
 * My blog is [http://thetravelreader](http://thetravelreader)
 * When I click on the categories in the main menu, the permalinks for them are:
 * thetravelreader.com/category/books/
 * Can I change them to thetravelreader.com/books/ istead?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Clarion Technologies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarionwpdeveloper/)
 * (@clarionwpdeveloper)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-category-permalink/#post-7409084)
 * Try below solution
    [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17798815/remove-category-tag-base-from-wordpress-url-without-a-plugin](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17798815/remove-category-tag-base-from-wordpress-url-without-a-plugin)
 * **or**
 * Just install below plugin automatically category remove from URL
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-category-url/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-category-url/)
 *  [samantha007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samantha007/)
 * (@samantha007)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-category-permalink/#post-7409200)
 * [Just check here](http://orotips.com/remove-category-base-wordpress-category-url/)
 * This will help you

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 * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/)
 * [permalinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalinks/)

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 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [samantha007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samantha007/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-category-permalink/#post-7409200)
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