In this post i will tell you how we can remove the ‘category’ from permalinks in WordPress.

Method 1

Using Remove Category URL plugin , we can completely remove the ‘/category/’ from permalinks ( e.g. mydomain.com/category/blog/ to mydomain.com/blog/)

No configuration is required for this plugin

Method 2

Login to WordPress admin area

Go to Setting > Permalinks

Select Custom Structure

Add /%category%/%postname%/ after your domain

Change Category Base to period/dot.