Viewing category pages without the word 'category' in URL

pasta_paul

When I view a static page its url is like: http://example.com/mybooks/ When I view a category page its url is like: http://example.com/category/books-ebooks/ For SEO, I want some modification so that I do not have to use the word category to view category pages. e.g. it should be http://example.com/books-ebooks/ instead of http://example.com/category/books-ebooks/ How can this be done? I see a potential problem that WordPress engine may not be...

Originally asked by a_fan on Stack Exchange (wordpress) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Basically a duplicate of this question . It comes up a lot, and the remove category base functionality probably should be an option in WordPress to be honest. Here was my answer from there: No Category Base plugin to remove the /category/ bit from the URL. :) If you have a page with the same name as a category, the page will be shown instead the category archive, but the URLs of posts won't be affected. At least, that used to be the case. I think I heard news of a recent change in the way WP calculates permalinks (for the better).

Full answer by Dominic: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/32895 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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