April 9, 2010 Having /category/ in the url of your blog url isn’t very handy for most people, especially those wanting to use WordPress as a non-blog style CMS. By default WordPress shows category archives like so:
http:/yourblog.com/category/quotes/
If you want to remove /category/ from the url, follow these two steps:
1. Go to Settings >> Permalinks and select Custom and enter: /%category%/%postname%/
2. Next set your Category Base to /.
Save it and you’ll see your URL changed to this format:
http:/yourblog.com/quotes/
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This will work to visit the normal page, but if you click on a category in the sidebar, your browser will go in a loop. Tried this using WordPress 3.0 beta 1.
This works perfect! Thanks so much!
This works great except when you have sub-categories– then it throws a 404. Any ideas to get this to work with sub-categories? Is there a plugin out there?
Thanks!
Hi there,
We have the same problem with sub-categories (404 error page), using WordPress RC2.0. We have tried using Top Categories and Pathless Categories Plugin, but always the same problem : URL looks good, but it throws a 404 error…
Hope someone will find a solution…
I also get the looping problem in WordPress v 3 final release. Works fine with default permalinks set or when leaving /category/ in the url, but as soon as I change the category base to /. I get looping 404 errors.
Please someone find a fix for this!
Hi,
We found a solution a few days ago for the 404 problem. First install and enable the Top Level Categories Plugin, then go to Settings > Permalinks, and set a custom structure like this :
/%category%/%postname%.html
You can leave the other fields empty. Note the “.html” after the post name. This will prevent WordPress from confusing categories and products URLs.
The 404 problem will occur when you have a structure like this :
/%category%/%postname%
Thank you!! This has been driving me CRAZY! lol…
i have tried so many thing no category base plugin,top level plugin etc but didnt found helpful these all things.when i install no category base plugin that works fine but my pagination didnt work correct.when install top level category plugin and set structure /%category%/%postname%.html it didnt work as well please help me if any one using something nice and helpful
is this even relevant to wordpress MU??? I don’t even see a permalinks option under settings.
Is this relevant to WordPress MU? I don’t see permalinks in settings at all.
hello, this trick is good for sidebar,but when you click on any post the url look like yoururl/categoryname/postname
Can we have a solution where we remove “category” and also keep the url permalink “postname”?
when I click on a post I get:
http://www.mysite.com/my_post
and when I search by category I get:
http://www.mysite.com/my_category
??
you may use this plugin:
WP No Category Base
and this worked perfect for me!