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Sometimes you don’t want to show parent directories in permalink because they are not really necessary or because you know that in the future your child directory will change it’s parent.
For example: 
+Work in progress 
–Site 1 
–Site 2 
+Work Finished 
–Site 3
In this case Site 3 originally have been part of “Work in progress”, and on job done it has been moved under “Work Finished”.
So if you install this plugin your link will be transformed in this way:
domain.com/parent_category/child_directory/post_name => domain.com/child_directory/post_name 
domain.com/category/parent_category => domain.com/parent_category 
domain.com/category/parent_category/child_directory => domain.com/parent_category/child_directory

Remove Parents

Remove Parents is a tiny plugin which remove "category" and parent categories from permalink.

ProThoughts.com

Simple redirect WordPress plugin, all 404 error pages are redirected to homepage. Google may lower PageRank of site if there are 404 error pages(Page not found), this plugin will fix that issue and help to improve your sites ranking.

Remove Parents vs Redirect 404 Error Page to Homepage