Remove category from your WordPress url

Ever wanted to be able to finally remove the useless /category/ from your WordPress categories permalinks?

If yes, read on and get ready to hack your .htaccess file.

By default, WordPress category permalinks are displayed that way:


http://www.livexp.net/blog/category/wordpress


As you can see, the category in the url is pretty useless.

Here’s how to remove it:

First backup your .htaccess file. Then, open it and append the following line:

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Once saved, your categories pages will be displayed like this:

http://www.livexp.net/blog/wordpress

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