Fortes

<p>The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of http://fortes.com/category/work, I use http://fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert <code>category/</code> before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.</p>
<h3>Known Issues / Bugs</h3>
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<li>This plugin <strong>will not work</strong> if you have a permalink structure like <code>%postname</code> or <code>%category%/%postname%</code> — there is currently no workaround</li>
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<h3>Uninstall</h3>
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<li>Deactivate the plugin</li>
<li>That’s it! 🙂</li>
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Top Level Categories

This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)

Frank Bueltge

Inpsyde GmbH

<p>When you change the permalink structure then this is a problem for bookmarks of users and also for search engines to link to your posts. This plugin uses the slug of the new url and search for a ID in the database of WordPress. If it finds a post according to the slug, the Plugin will redirect to the correct post and send a header message “moved permanently 301” to change the url on the index of search engines.</p>


Change Permalink Helper

Awesome!

It checks the Permalink and redirects to the new URL, if it doesn't exist. It sends the header message "moved permanently 301"

Top Level Categories vs Change Permalink Helper