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Remove category word from Wordpress category URL

1 Comment 26 January 2009

By Default, Wordpress Category URL is

http://blogsolute.com/category/softwares

This doesn’t looks good and not so Search engine friendly; if you are thinking of making it something like

http://blogsolute.com/softwares

It’s pretty and comparitively more SEO friendly, You will need to remove the word “category” from the existing URL to make it look like this.

If you no more find that word important, open .htaccess file from the root directory of your blog installation and add the following line:

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

Done! Save he changes made and all your URLs will now look like this:

http://blogsolute.com/softwares

Note : If your blog is older then Search engines might have crawled older URL which will now show 404 error after changes so, it is recommended for newly setup blogs.

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Rohit Langde

Rohit Langde - who has written 789 posts on Blogsolute.

Rohit is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is a Technology Enthusiast and You can follow him on twitter @blogsolute

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  1. If you ever want to hear a reader’s feedback :) , I rate this article for four from five. Decent info, but I have to go to that damn google to find the missed bits. Thanks, anyway!


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