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>
<ol>
<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>
</ol>
<h3>Uninstall</h3>
<ol>
<li>Deactivate the plugin</li>
<li>That’s it! 🙂</li>
</ol>


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)

Grégory Viguier

<p>With this plugin, administrators can change the default author base in the registered users profile url, and the author slug of each user.<br />
Changing an author slug is a good thing for security (if your login is “This Is Me”, your slug will be “this-is-me”, a bit easy to guess).<br />
The plugin adds 2 fields for this purpose, one in permalinks settings, the other in a user profile.</p>
<ul>
<li>Default: <em>example.com/author_base/author_nicename/</em></li>
<li>Customized: <em>example.com/jedi/obiwan/</em></li>
</ul>
<h4>How to edit the slugs</h4>
<ul>
<li>Go to <em>Settings</em> > <em>Permalinks</em> to edit the author base: “author” => “jedi”</li>
<li>Go to <em>Users</em> > <em>“Any user profile”</em> to edit the user slug: “agent-smith” => “obiwan”</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>German by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/carny88" rel="ugc">Carny88</a></li>
<li>Spanish by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/oliverbar" rel="ugc">Oliver</a></li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<ul>
<li>The plugin is ready for Multisite.</li>
</ul>


SF Author Url Control

Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.

Top Level Categories vs SF Author Url Control