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WP Remove Category Base

Removes the category base slug from the category archive permalinks (URL's).

By ezraverheijen·Category Base·Free
5(10 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 8 years ago
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As of April 2026, WP Remove Category Base is a WordPress category base plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 82K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 9% this week. Top alternative: No Category Base (WPML).

5/510 reviews
10K+active installs
82K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014

Overview

This is actually the deprecated code from WordPress SEO, with some small improvements added to it.

Read full description on WordPress.org

Ratings & Reviews

510 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Perfect
by GDY·8 years ago

No settings and just does what it should. Activated an voila: gone is the category base.

Just What I needed
by neotrope·9 years ago

Thanks; was working on a new slim WP theme for our main business in house, and wanted to avoid Yoast or other SEO plugins and “roll my own.” This helped me sort out the pesky /category/ slug, which really should be a built in on/off option in WP by now!

Bravo! 🙂

Works!
by Pat K·9 years ago

Installed – activated and it works. Dead easy.

Thanks for the plugin!

PK

Easy
by Matt Scheidler·9 years ago

Literally 3 minutes ago I searched for “wordpress category base remove” in Google, found this one and installed. Success! Works with the latest 4.5.2.

Works
by radgh·10 years ago

I honestly doubt this has any impact on SEO, especially since it’s only for category archive pages. The meat of SEO is on the content pages. But regardless, this plugin works just fine and does what it says without an issue. The SEO side affects are likely just a placebo however.

Download Trends

Today: 7Yesterday: 6This week: 35Period total: 3K

Compatibility

WordPress3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.0
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0

  • Initial release
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

ezraverheijenezraverheijen
Plugin Info
Version
1.0
Last Updated
Nov 28, 2017
WP Requires
3.5+
Tested Up To
4.2.39
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
82K+
Added
Jun 23, 2014
Business
Free

Tags

category basecategory slugcategory prefix

Developer

E
ezraverheijen
4 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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