Title: Permalink category on base?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Permalink category on base?

 *  [ChristopherO](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christophero/)
 * (@christophero)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-on-base/)
 * Is there any way to have Category base as the root of my site?
 * i.e. instead of
    mysite.com/category/news mysite.com/category/projects
 * have
    mysite.com/news mysite.com/projects
 * ?
 * p.s. my post structure is /%category%/%postname% so I get:
    mysite.com/projects/
   new-site
 * many thanks

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-on-base/#post-1128438)
 * This might help:
 * [http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-category-from-your-wordpress-url](http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-category-from-your-wordpress-url)
 * Also this from [Using Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks):
 * > For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure
   > with the category, tag, author, or postname fields. The reason is that these
   > are text fields, and using them at the beginning of your permalink structure
   > it takes more time for WordPress to distinguish your Post URLs from Page URLs(
   > which always use the text “page slug” as the URL), and to compensate, WordPress
   > stores a lot of extra information in its database (so much that sites with 
   > lots of Pages have experienced difficulties). So, it is best to start your 
   > permalink structure with a numeric field, such as the year or post ID.
 *  [timh555](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timh555/)
 * (@timh555)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-on-base/#post-1128659)
 * > it is best to start your permalink structure with a numeric field
 * What if I set my “category base” option as a static numeric… like 5
    and use /%
   category%/%postname% as my permalink structure… so that a url looks like `domain.
   com/blog/5/category/postname`
 * will having that numeric there help performance, or does it have to be a dynamic
   number like the year?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-category-on-base/#post-1128659)
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