WordPress Guide

WordPress remove category from url

To remove category slug from existing posts, do this :

1. Navigate to Settings > Permalinks and change Custom Structure from /%category%/%postname%/ to: /%postname%/
2. Keep Category and Tag bases empty (which is the default also)
3. Save

All posts can now be directly accessed via YourDomain.com/%postname%/ and all categories can be accessed via YourDomain.com/category/abc/. WordPress will automatically add all the 301 redirects for the old URLs. So, if someone accesses YourDomain.com/%category%/%postname%/ they will automatically get redirected to YourDomain.com/%postname%/

Remove Category in WordPress Permalinks

• Go to your admin dashboard.
• Go to Settings >> Permalinks >> Optional >> Category base.
• Enter your customized category base (e.g. ‘Articles’) or Choose Post-name
• Save the changes.

Removing Category by Adding a Code in functions.php File

• Go to your WordPress dashboard.
• Select Appearance >> Theme Editor.
• Find ‘functions.php’.
• Type the following code before the last PHP tag:

 function remove_category( $string, $type )  {           if ( $type != 'single' && $type == 'category' && ( strpos( $string, 'category' ) !== false ) )          {              $url_without_category = str_replace( "/category/", "/", $string );              return trailingslashit( $url_without_category );          }      return $string;  }     add_filter( 'user_trailingslashit', 'remove_category', 100, 2);

Using Yoast’s SEO Plugin to Remove Category from WordPress URL

1. Go to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Select Yoast SEO >> Search Appearance>> Taxonomies
3. Go to Category URLs and select ‘Remove the categories prefix’.
4. Save the changes.

Modifying .htaccess to Remove Category From WordPress URL

• Login via FTP or cPanel
• Go to your .htaccess file.
• Add the following code after the closing tag in the file:

RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ https://www.YourDomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

• Write your domain name in place of www.YourDomain.com or YourDomain.com in the code above.
• Upload it on your server’s public_html directory.

Without plugin wordpress remove category from url

For Multisite WordPress the following works:

1. Go to network admin sites;
2. Open site under /;
3. Go to settings;
4. Under permalinks structure type /%category%/%postname%/. This will display your url as www.DomainName.com/categoryname/postname;
5. Now go to your site dashboard (not network dashboard);
6. Open settings;
7. Open permalink. Do not save (the permalink will show uneditable field as www.DomainName.com/blog/. Ignore it. If you save now the work you did in step 4 will be overwritten. This step of opening permalink page but not saving in needed to update the database.