Remove category word from WordPress category URL

| January 26, 2009 | 4 Comments
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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 is editor-in-chief and owner of Blogsolute. He is Born-Geek and Technology Enthusiast. Being a blogger, he is also Mechanical Engineer who believes in simple Living. You can

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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!

  2. Piseth says:

    that’s helpful. thanks for sharing this tip

  3. hello dear,
    the trick is nice but i dont know why it is not worknig on my blog.

  4. Raul says:

    Do you know that when you use .htaccess to change this you are creating a redirect and this is not very good, a much better ways is what is described in this post: http://www.nelsonpires.com/wordpress/remove-word-category-from-wordpress-urls/

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