saved me a purchase of permalink manager pro

all i wanted to do was have the same /blog/ prefix to my urls for both category and posts AND remove the ‘category’ text from the url of my categories.

Before
/blog/category/example-category-name
/blog/example-post-name

After
/blog/example-category-name
/blog/example-post-name

Saved me a purchase of permalink pro or writing a custom script to do this.

hope this helps someone.

Cheers