Removing Top Level Category/Prefix From WordPress Permalinks

by on December 3, 2011

Once again, I hope I have spare time in the future to update and refine this post to benefits others but for now, I will just slam this short post on how to ‘fix’ and take out the Top Level category or the prefix category text that is in the WordPress blog permalink structure.

Get Notified on My Next Post..
informative, useful, funny, case studies....


I have a site that keeps getting “Non Existing Post” something error when I click on the Category then Next Page.

During that time I have the Top Level Category Plugin installed (I”ve been playing around with Siloing, hence)  and when I disable that plugin, all is good.


I read from the WordPress forum that there is a fix from that issue and I also tried FV Top Level Category plugin (from the same author) and that didn’t work.  I still have the 404 error when I click on Next Page from the Category page.

Finally, from the same forum, I installed WP No Category Base which also says “Removes ‘/category’ from your category permalinks” and, yes, that little plugin made everything ok. It worked.


Share This Content
Subscribe to Updates

Leave a Comment

Previous post:

Next post: