Remove category & tag base from WordPress url - wi

Question

I would like to remove the category & tag base from wordpress URL. I have come across other posts and solutions which used plugins. I would like to stay away from plugins and have a solution from within functions.php. This would prevent any future plugin updates or wordpress default files from being changed.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I have tried these solutions so far:

• This Htaccess solution did not work: http://mikepayne.co/2011/remove-category-base-from-url/
• These methods also failed: http://www.askapache.com/wordpress/remove-category-wordpress-urls.html

Answer 1

instead put this in your functions.php works fine, no redirect problems.

function fix_slash( $string, $type )
{
global $wp_rewrite;
if ( $wp_rewrite->use_trailing_slashes == false )
{
    if ( $type != 'single' && $type != 'category' )
        return trailingslashit( $string );

    if ( $type == 'single' && ( strpos( $string, '.html/' ) !== false ) )
        return trailingslashit( $string );

    if ( $type == 'category' && ( strpos( $string, 'category' ) !== false ) )
    {
        $aa_g = str_replace( "/category/", "/", $string );
        return trailingslashit( $aa_g );
    }
    if ( $type == 'category' )
        return trailingslashit( $string );
}
return $string;
}

add_filter( 'user_trailingslashit', 'fix_slash', 55, 2 );

Answer 2

The non-category plugin did not work for me.

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 yourdoamainname/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.

Answer 3

https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-category-url/ Use this plugin it does the job perfectly of hiding the category-base It does not require any setting just install and activate.

Answer 4

Select Custom Structure in permalinks and add /%category%/%postname%/ after your domain. Adding "/" to the category base doesn't work, you have to add a period/dot. I wrote a tutorial for this here: remove category from URL tutorial

Answer 5

I liked this solution:

If you want to remove /category/ from the url, follow these two steps:

1. Go to Settings >> Permalinks and select Custom and enter: /%category%/%postname%/
2. Next set your Category Base to .

Save it and you’ll see your URL changed to this format: http:/yourblog.com/quotes/

(Source: http://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/daily-tip-quick-trick-to-remove-category-from-wordpress-url/)

Answer 6

If you're still searching for the combination (tags, categories and pages on the url-base), you can do it like I did.

• Open the settings for permalinks and set a dot (.) for the category- and tag-base (https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/removing-category-base-urls-wordpress/)
• Install the plugin wp-no-tag-base

Tested using Wordpress 3.9.1

If you have pages, categories or tags having the same name, the system will take:

1. tag
2. page
3. category