Top Level Categories
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)
5(4 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 8 years agoAs 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.
5/54 reviews
2.0K+active installs
91K+total downloads
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
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.
Known Issues / Bugs
- This plugin will not work if you have a permalink structure like
%postnameor%category%/%postname%— there is currently no workaround
Uninstall
- Deactivate the plugin
- That’s it! 🙂
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Still works!
by Matthew Stratford·12 years ago
It still does exactly what it says on the tin, even after a full version change from 2.x.x to 3.x.x!
all I needed
by Angua·12 years ago
thank you!
great plugin
by nguacon01·13 years ago
This plugin is awesome
that's it
·13 years ago
Has simple as this
Download Trends
Today: 9Yesterday: 7This week: 52Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.0.9+ requiredTested up to 2.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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