how to remove "/category/" from wordpress base URL

Hi

anyone know how to remove /category/ from the URL in wordpress.

answers ive seen that are not correct:
- remove in permalinks: no you can't do this in permalinks
- do it in all in one seo pack: no you can't do this either

Ive tried installing Top level categories plugin which did hide the /category/ in the url but then i got errors on those pages.

Any ideas?

 

AFAIK you have to hack the core to remove this.

 

in permalink page you just enter the new format of url that you need to show. Ex "%postname%.html" I'm always use this format and my url look like

 

Update your Wordpress, then go to /wp-admin/options-permalink.php

On the categories one, type "/" (without the quotes). Sorted.

 

The answer is "it depends." Are you using regular wordpress that you install and host yourself or a hosted site like wordpress.com?

You may want to read this since it;s recent:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1635939

 

This seems to work, thanks for sharing this method. It's a lot easier to hack core files if you know PHP

 

go to permalinks and set it to custom and use %postname% in the space there. Then you are done. This will give you site.com/postname

Nigel

 

Of course you can edit the permalinks to just show the postname, but what if you want %category%/$postname% (which is arguably better) with out showing the word "category" in the categories.

Plus doesn't this happen when viewing a category even when just using "%postname%" ?

 

that didnt work for me :-(