Robert Wetzlmayr

<p>Smartify your post and page slugs and let them convey the very essence of your content’s titles by removing too short or insignificant stopwords – automatically, that is. <strong>Smart Slug</strong> comes preloaded with an easily expandable and configurable set of German, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese and English stopwords.</p>
<p>Please visit my <a href="http://talkpress.de/blip/wet-smartslug-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart WordPress Slug Plugin</a> article to review additional screenshots, grasp implementation details and contribute to a related discussion on how search engines evaluate words in URL fragments.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
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<li>Russian translation by <a href="http://www.luxpar.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Natalya Pastukhova</a></li>
<li>Ukrainian translation by <a href="http://www.pastukhova-floeder.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Natalya Pastukhova</a></li>
<li>Dutch translation by <a href="http://www.patriciaritsemavaneck.name/" rel="nofollow ugc">Patricia Ritsema van Eck</a></li>
<li>Portuguese translation by <a href="http://www.centralwordpress.com.br/" rel="nofollow ugc">Raoni Del Pérsio</a></li>
<li>Hindi translation by <a href="http://outshinesolutions.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Outshine Solutions</a></li>
<li>Indonesian translation by <a href="http://www.syamsulalam.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Syamsul Alam</a></li>
<li>Serbian translation by <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
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<h4>Limitations</h4>
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<li>Smart Slug overrides all manual slug modifications which would violate its rule set, even if you are making them deliberately.</li>
<li>WordPress appends a unique number to ambigous slugs (e.g. hello-word, hello-world-2 et cetera). Smart Slug may not notice this behaviour when an article is saved for the first time. If this happens you may simply re-save the post to attach a smart slug.</li>
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Smart Slug

Smartify your post and page slugs by removing too short or insignificant stopwords automatically.

Themeisle

Valerio Souza

<p>Remove Category URL strips the <code>/category/</code> base from your category URLs, turning something like <code>/category/my-category/</code> into simply <code>/my-category/</code>.</p>
<p>Just activate, and you’re done. No configuration needed.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Creates cleaner URLs like <code>mydomain.com/my-category/</code> and <code>mydomain.com/my-category/my-post/</code></li>
<li>Works out of the box with no settings to configure</li>
<li>Supports multiple sub-categories</li>
<li>Automatically 301 redirects old category URLs to the new structure (SEO-friendly)</li>
<li>Sitemaps are automatically updated with the new URLs after activation</li>
<li>Compatible with WordPress Multisite, WPML, and popular sitemap plugins</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why remove /category/ from URLs?</h3>
<p>The <code>/category/</code> base in WordPress URLs is there by default, but it doesn’t help your visitors or search engines understand your content any better. When you remove <code>/category/</code> from URLs, you get cleaner paths like <code>mydomain.com/news/</code> instead of <code>mydomain.com/category/news/</code>. They’re shorter, easier to remember and share, and more consistent with how your pages are already structured.</p>
<p>Shorter URLs also tend to look better in search results and make your site feel more polished overall. Removing the category base is a small change that makes your whole URL structure cleaner.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>We’re here to help. Feel free to open a new thread on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-category-url/" rel="ugc">Support Forum</a>.</p>
<h3>Useful Resources</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you like this plugin, you’re sure to love <a href="https://themeisle.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">our other plugins</a> as well.</li>
<li>Our blog is a great place to <a href="https://themeisle.com/blog/" rel="nofollow ugc">learn more about WordPress</a>.</li>
<li>Get the most out of your website with our helpful <a href="https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmRasCVwuvpSep2MOsIoE0ncO9JE3FcKP" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress YouTube Tutorials</a>.</li>
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Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks

Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.

Smart Slug vs Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks