Title: Remove Base Category from Permalinks
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Base Category from Permalinks

 *  [Tanveer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanver/)
 * (@tanver)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/)
 * One of my fellow developer has set this ‘Category Base’ and ‘Tag Base’ to “/blog”,
   now how can we remove this from the URL.
 * Now the Permalinks page optional – parts looks like
 * Category Base /blog <input box>
    Tag Base /blog <input box>
 * I suspect this causing permalinks not work on this page here
 * [http://www.lisabel.ca/blog/articles/lisabel-artiste-peintre-contemporaine/](http://www.lisabel.ca/blog/articles/lisabel-artiste-peintre-contemporaine/)
 * When clicked on any of the Left Side Menu Option – Categories/Posts – the display
   does not change at all and the same contents are displayed.
 * TIA

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 *  [samateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samateo/)
 * (@samateo)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112065)
 * Have you tried removing /blog _Category base_ and _Tag base_ in **Settings** 
   | **Permalinks** under the Optional section?
 *  Thread Starter [Tanveer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanver/)
 * (@tanver)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112066)
 * [@samateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samateo/), probably you have not
   got what I am asking? let me say it again, it is already changed now I want to
   restore the default?
 *  [samateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samateo/)
 * (@samateo)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112070)
 * Does your .htaccess contain a rule that might be redirecting requests to /blog?
   something like RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
 *  Thread Starter [Tanveer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tanver/)
 * (@tanver)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112071)
 * nope, here is the .htaccess file
 * # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule
   ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!-
   d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress
 *  [samateo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samateo/)
 * (@samateo)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112073)
 * You still may have reference to the category or tag base inside the ‘rewrite_rules’
   option of the ‘options’ table in your database. Check the array for references
   to /blog.
 * WordPress will rebuild the list of rewrite rules if you rename the option_name
   value in that table to something like ‘rewrite_rulesbck’.

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

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-base-category-from-permalinks/#post-3112073)
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