Removing "category" from the url

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  plafond007 · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 3:42 pm

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  Hi all,

  When you add a category item in your menu and you click on it, the url shows like: http://mydomain.com/category/page. Is it possible to remove “category” and just have http://mydomain.com/page ?

  Thanks

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  noebiewan · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 3:52 pm

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  Hi, there.

  On WordPress.com, that URL structure is baked in, with no way to remove the “category” part.

  On WordPress sites hosted elsewhere, it’s possible to change the default base name, but there still has to be something there between the slashes in your example.

  I hope this helps.

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  plafond007 · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 4:01 pm

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  Thanks, noebiewan, I appreciate your swift response.
  My guess is, in order to replace it with someone else, it would have to be done here: http://screencast.com/t/JlpJp4EBu0 , correct?

  Thanks

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  noebiewan · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 4:05 pm

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  On a self-hosted site, yes. That’s the spot.

  Just for future reference, if you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress site and need help, the forums at WordPress.org are where to go. The ones we’re posting on here are only for sites hosted on WordPress.com.

  Here’s the link to the other site.

  https://wordpress.org/support/

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  plafond007 · Member · Jan 26, 2016 at 4:06 pm

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  Noted.

  Thanks a lot.