This plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
As of April 2026, Remove Taxonomy Base Slug is a WordPress tag plugin with 5.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 23 reviews. It has been downloaded 39K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 30% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
If you would like to have a little more nice permalinks to your custom post types articles with custom permalinks – this plugin can help you with this.
If the term has the same slug as the post type, then the taxonomy has the priority over the post type.
Now I will show some examples:
(Custom taxonomy:)
site.com/taxonomy/cars
site.com/cars
(Custom taxonomy with child taxonomies)
site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw
site.com/cars/bmw
(Term slug is the same as the post type slug:)
(Post Type:) site.com/cars/
(Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/
(Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw
(Post Type:) site.com/cars/ (will not show)
(Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars (will show)
(Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars/bmw (will show)
Great and well done
Worked as per requirement.
Just works
the plugin has not been updated for a long time, but it still works fine. Thanks
Best Plugin
Working fine.
| WordPress | 3.4+ requiredTested up to 3.9.40 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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