Removes the category base slug from the category archive permalinks (URL's).
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).
This is actually the deprecated code from WordPress SEO, with some small improvements added to it.
No settings and just does what it should. Activated an voila: gone is the category base.
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! 🙂
Installed – activated and it works. Dead easy.
Thanks for the plugin!
PK
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.
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.
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 4.2.39 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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