Title: Remove Uncategorized Slug
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Remove Uncategorized Slug

 *  [kb959fl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb959fl/)
 * (@kb959fl)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/)
 * Will this plugin help me remove the slug entirely when using the category “uncategorized”
   within the URL. For example, I would like to have:
 * mysite.com/uncategorized/about.htm
    – become: mysite.com/about.htm
 * – however:
    mysite.com/cool/stuff.htm – will stay: mysite.com/cool/stuff.htm
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/extended-categories-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/extended-categories-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [petervanderdoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petervanderdoes/)
 * (@petervanderdoes)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625758)
 * No it won’t
 *  Thread Starter [kb959fl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb959fl/)
 * (@kb959fl)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625759)
 * Peter – Instead of removing it, is it possible to hide the slug? Or, can a plugin
   be created to do this? I’m migrating from a static html site over to WP and I
   have about 2,500 pages created off the root domain. I don’t want to setup 301
   redirects for all these pages. Thanks.
 *  Plugin Author [petervanderdoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petervanderdoes/)
 * (@petervanderdoes)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625760)
 * Do you only want the uncategorized slug to not show up in your URL?
 * NM you already said that’s what you want 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [kb959fl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb959fl/)
 * (@kb959fl)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625761)
 * Yes, just the “uncategorized” slug.
 *  Plugin Author [petervanderdoes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petervanderdoes/)
 * (@petervanderdoes)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625764)
 * Unfortunately that doesn’t seem possible at all with WordPress. I did a bit of
   research and couldn’t find any solution.
 *  Thread Starter [kb959fl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb959fl/)
 * (@kb959fl)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625767)
 * Thanks for researching it. It looks like I will just need to add posts/categories
   for the 2,500 articles off the root domain. To redirect these pages to the correct
   location, would mod_rewrite be the best solution?

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## Tags

 * [remove](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/remove/)
 * [slug](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/slug/)
 * [Uncategorized](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/uncategorized/)

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 * Last reply from: [kb959fl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kb959fl/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-uncategorized-slug/#post-4625767)
 * Status: not resolved