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How to Delete the slug /category/ from wordpress category pages
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Hi all,
I would like to ask you what's the better way to eliminate the slug /category/ form the wordpress category pages. I need to delete the slug /category/ to make the url seo frendly. The problem is that my site is an old site with the page indexed by Google for a long time.
Thanks for your advice.
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Hi,
What David mentioned in his response is the best way to remove the /category/ from the URL. However, based on your comment, you can't remove the /category/ because it conflicts with the page URLs which kind of contradict your initial question.
I would suggest reworking on the page URL and the category URL. If you use 301 redirect to redirect the old URL to the new URL, everything should be fine once Google crawls your site again and see the redirect.
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Hi David, thanks for your answer.
I usually use the plugin Wordpress Seo By Yoast to "Strip the category base (usually /category/) from the category URL" but in this case I'm not able to use it because It makes conflict with the pages url.
Regards.
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If you're using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin (which is the best for SEO, in my opinion), and you go under Permalinks within the SEO menu, the first item on the list is the option to "Strip the category base (usually
/category/) from the category URL."If you do this, I would of course first compile a list of your current category URLs and all the URLs that live under them, and drop them into whatever you use for 301 redirects (I use a plugin called Redirection, which is great) and redirect everything on that list to the version of that URL without the /category/.
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