Gary Jones

If bots are attacking your site by appending <code>/search/a-random-string-or-word</code>, then those pages may be getting indexed by search engines, or populating search logs.
This plugin disables that permalink structure.
Search forms will still work, and the search results page will use the less index-friendly <code>?s=search-term</code> format.

Disable Search Slug

Stops /search/... URLs from working, resulting in a WordPress 404 page not found.

Sergio Milardovich

This plugin will completely remove the mandatory ‘Category Base’ and all the parents from your category permalinks (e.g. <code>/category/parent-category/my-category/</code> to <code>/my-category/</code>).

No category parents

This plugin will completely remove the mandatory 'Category Base' and all the parents from your category permalinks (e.g.

Disable Search Slug vs No category parents