Hi,
THANKS for this. I don’t really know php, so excuse me if te beow doesn’t make complete sense.

In order to make it work, I needed to do a couple of things…

1. I needed to copy and paste your code from my browser into notepad and change the curly quotes into standard text quotes. The way you have your font formatted doesn’t work when copying and pasting code

2. I found that the code errored out until I added a second quote in front of the second argument in the array, so I ended up with the following as the inserted line, and it worked:

$catlink = str_replace(’/category’, “”, $catlink);

Hi there

I managed to get this working with help from the extra instructions from Kris above.

However this dosen’t work for sub-categories as I just get a 404

Hi Charlie I created a sub-category on this site to test it and it worked fine for me. If you have copied the code from Kris (above) do not add the second quote. It should work by just adding this code $catlink = str_replace(’/category’, ”, $catlink);
Otherwise it could be a problem with the way your permalinks are set up.
Try that and let me know if you have problems.

Hello

I retried you code as you suggested and got this error which broke the page:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /homepages/18/d96255924/htdocs/casino-heaven.eu/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 56

I had actually tried your tip before Kris posted his improvements and had the same problem - at which point I gave up.

I have to admit that there could be any number of conflicts with exiting plugins, which may be making the difference between this working or not.

I have got Filipe Fortes’s plugin Top Level Categories working which will do the job so I might just stick with that.

Hmm…what version of wordpress are you using? This will only work for the latest version - Wordpress 2.0+

Hi Farida,
Could you please to clear up the mystery of how to make links for tags from tag cloud like “/tag/tag_name” or even “/tag_name” instead of “/index.php?tag=new”. I see your tag links are fine tuned and seo friendly… but mine, hrrrr.
No matter what I did, wp shows 404 error…

Will be appreciate for help!
Thanks
PS setting up utw options brings the same results - 404 - page not found

Hi Aleksey
There is a setting in Options->Tags to “use url rewriting for local tag urls (/tag/tag instead of index.php?tag=tag)” (top of the page under configuration) - make sure this is checked. Also make sure the base url underneath is /tag/

Let me know if you need any more help

Farida,
the Options->Tags is not working for me and for many other users who installed the latest version of wp (2.2.1 I think). There lots of discussion around this problem, but nobody can find out a panacea.

People say it’s about some type of conflict between wp and utw code.

That is the exact what I say. Funny thing, but when you turn off the rewrite rule for categories and permalinks (fancy urls I think or smth like that) in wp options and that activate “use url rewriting for local tag urls …” the UTW rewrite function becomes working properly. But as soon as I turn on fancy url back utw stops working again.

I’m so confused : /

Ok, the version i’m using is 2.1.2 that’s probaly why mine is working.

So does it not work on the latest version of Wordpress which is 2.2?

I tried to follow the instructions and I got problems when navigating to the /page/2/ it showing a 404 error.

[…] ссылочки: Change or remove the “Category” from your permalinks on a wordpress blog How to remove category base from permalinks Removing the Dreaded Wordpress “Category” Forever! WordPress Ideas: Remove ‘Category […]

Thanx.

I have WP 2.5.
I did what u said and it worked.

in the folder wp-includes, in the file category-template.php,
I wrote on the line 28:
$catlink = str_replace(’/category’, ”, $catlink);

The Plugin is very good!!
Thand you!

hi Farida!
Thank you very much for support!
But i have a problem on my blog after removing “category” in my url’s.
The same problem like Charbax (above) told.
I am having problem when i am navigating to the category_name/page/2/ and im getting a 404 error
You can see it here: http://www.firanet.nl/kapsels-haarmode/page/2/
Do you have any idea how i can solve this problem?

Hi Safira I have the same problem as you,
I can see you fixed your problem! How did you do this?

Ok figured it out!

Using WP 2.6

1. Using the following code in category-template.php:

function get_category_link($category_id) {
global $wp_rewrite;
$catlink = $wp_rewrite->get_category_permastruct();
$catlink = str_replace(’/category’,”", $catlink);

2. Then was getting 404s for all category archive pages, so then went to admin panel / settings / permalinks / in custom structure added this: /%category%/%postname%-%post_id%.htm

Now it is beautiful! Check it out at http://www.carbonoffsetsdaily.com.

Thanks for the great code!

Hi,
It worked for me when i did as you said
but i am getting the links as http://www.localsadda.com/softwares
The last slash is not coming.
How can i get the ‘/’ at the end of the category i.e., after word softwares in the above link.

Regards,
Sunil.

I tried your code and it does work, but only for PARENT categories. I am using a

-category
-subcategory 1
-subcategory 2

and unfortunately it doesn’t work for the subcategories Any ideas?

Hi Greyer

What version of wordpress are you using? The code won’t work i’ve found with the latest versions of wordpress. Check the update on the post above and try that instead. It will work with subcategory’s as well.

Man, all that does is changing the category links in your templates. When you click on those links, you get a ‘page not found’ if the category is nested.

Unless you want to use just non-nested categories, there’s no trivial workaround for this.

Wordpress can remove category base from permalinks :

Simply use : ” /. ” in category’s permalinks with no “” when you configure it.

I’ve got it working fine with this:

$catlink = str_replace(’/category’, “”, $catlink);

However, it 404’s on any page 2 archives (domain.com/news/page/2/)

Any idea for a fix there?

Thank you. Based on your code I made a plugin to do the job. It work great.

I notice you have .htm suffix on your post slug without trailing slash (/), then how could u still have the category slug with trailing slash? Please, I need to know because this is exactly what I wanted.

This is a tip : just add “/.” (without “”) in admin -> permalinks -> cat. prefix
This delete “category/” !!!

I fixed the pagination problem. See here for my solution, it’s fairly easy.

http://www.themadhat.com/blogging/remove-category-base-wordpress/

Regarding adding trailing slash, see this 5 step tutorial that tells you how to add trailing slash to a category. Please note this is only for wordpress 2.6+
http://bloggerholic.com/wordpress/how-to-add-trailing-slash-to-a-category-144.htm