How To Remove Category Base URL?

Hi @angoraspace,

You can change the permalink structure through WordPress’ default settings.
You can find them here: /wp-admin/options-permalink.php.

I think you wish for this structure to be applied:
/%category%/%postname%/

Regarding the priority: We could allow more styling, and I’ll consider that for a future update. I’ll ping back here after I’ve filed a feature request.

No. I wish clean permalink like this -> mywebsite,com/blog

I don’t want category slug in my permalink.

There’s an option to remove this on Yoast. But I can’t found this option on your plugin?

Hi @angoraspace,

TSF doesn’t utilize such options.

I believe Yoast SEO had (or still have?) these options because WordPress was very restricted in this. However, now it’s possible through WordPress, and as such, you can achieve the same through the permalink settings.

A simple Google Search will reveal various ways to achieve what you want.

In any case, I don’t think you should omit structure from the URLs, as it’ll hide relevant information from the user.
It also doesn’t affect SERP ranking, and it will therefore not be implemented in TSF.
Many experts, among (former) Google staff, agree with me on this.

Here’s a very relevant video on this subject from Google Webmasters:

To top it off, it also potentially breaks WordPress’ rewrite system, as collisions between terms and pages are likely to arise. So, the feature is a bug in its very design.

I hope this clears things up. Cheers ??

Thanks for great response. Yes, I watched about that video before. Removing “category” base is just optional, not mandatory. But it would be great if there’s an optional setting to choose to keep or remove the “category” base on the permalink.

By the way, I like the customization color for the sitemap page. Also I try to hide the priority list on the sitemap page with {display: none;} on my custom CSS. But it can’t be applied.

Hi @angoraspace,

That option won’t make it to this plugin, as it’ll break WordPress by default. I do understand neat URLs are cool but do you really actively read them as you enter any page aside from your own?
Also, this is where breadcrumbs come in: they mask the URLs and show structure on Google Search ??

I’m glad you like the sitemap’s styling! I’ve escalated your request to GitHub as soon as I read your reply.
Custom CSS won’t help you here because it’s not part of the theme.

Hi, Sybre.

I try another SEO plugin for my client. That plugin has optional setting about hide category base permalink via redirect ->
from mywebsite,com/category/blog to mywebsite,com/blog

So, the redirect way won’t break any structure, because it doesn’t remove the original version. It just a suggestion and I still use your SEO plugin for another website.

Cheers!