This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)
As of April 2026, Top Level Categories is a WordPress permalink plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 91K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://fortes.com/category/work, I use http://fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert category/ before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.
%postname or %category%/%postname% — there is currently no workaroundIt still does exactly what it says on the tin, even after a full version change from 2.x.x to 3.x.x!
thank you!
This plugin is awesome
Has simple as this
| WordPress | 2.0.9+ requiredTested up to 2.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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