Title: Remove Taxonomy Base Slug Author: Alexandru Vornicescu Published: Gouere 20, 2013 Last modified: Meurzh 18, 2014 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/remove-taxonomy-base-slug.svg) # Remove Taxonomy Base Slug By [Alexandru Vornicescu](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvorn2/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug.zip) * [Details](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/#description) * [Reviews](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/#reviews) * [Installation](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/#installation) * [Development](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/) ## Description If you would like to have a little more nice permalinks to your custom post types articles with custom permalinks – this plugin can help you with this. If the term has the same slug as the post type, then the taxonomy has the priority over the post type. Now I will show some examples: (Custom taxonomy:) #### From: site.com/taxonomy/cars #### To: site.com/cars (Custom taxonomy with child taxonomies) #### From: site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw #### To: site.com/cars/bmw (Term slug is the same as the post type slug:) #### From: (Post Type:) site.com/cars/ (Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/ (Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw #### To: (Post Type:) site.com/cars/ (will not show) (Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars( will show) (Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars/bmw (will show) ## Installation 1. Unzip 2. Upload “remove-taxonomy-base-slug” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 4. Select which taxonomies base slug to remove, go to Plugins -> Remove Taxonomy Base Slug 5. Update your permalinks, go to Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes 6. That’s it! ## FAQ Installation Instructions 1. Unzip 2. Upload “remove-taxonomy-base-slug” folder to the “/wp-content/plugins/” directory 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress 4. Select which taxonomies base slug to remove, go to Plugins -> Remove Taxonomy Base Slug 5. Update your permalinks, go to Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes 6. That’s it! Why should I use this plugin? Use this plugin if you want to get rid of a custom taxonomy base slug completely. The normal behaviour of WordPress is to add ‘/taxonomy’ to your permalinks if you leave “taxonomy page” blank (ex: site.com/taxonomy/). So your taxonomy links look like “site.com/taxonomy/my-taxonomy/”. With this plugin your taxonomy links will look like “site.com/my-taxonomy/” (or “site.com/my-taxonomy/sub-taxonomy/” in case of child taxonomies). Will it break any other plugins? I don’t think so. Won’t this conflict with pages or post types? Simply don’t have a page or a post type and category with the same slug. Even if they do have the same slug it won’t break anything. Priority will be for taxonomies. Can you add a feature X? Depends, if its useful enough and I have time for it. ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/824cc81c21af7fbba83360719aada7d61b8b4367d772d162285714b86b734bab? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Must have!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/must-have-555/)󠁿 [Leeonard](https://profiles.wordpress.org/leeonard89/) miz Here 2, 2020 Great and well done ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/441cf816e9130681ac16586e29822aeb8c1cb3370c937aa58c6988378ccc1827? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Worked Perfectly!!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/worked-perfectly-206/)󠁿 [waleedt93](https://profiles.wordpress.org/waleedt93/) Meurzh 4, 2019 Worked as per requirement. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/34ce157fd2f36e57a7bb1d5472934582f691d4ace07c5f12b009c3c9fafe26e9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-8225/)󠁿 [likafom](https://profiles.wordpress.org/likafom/) Mae 24, 2018 Just works ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/a7be233baf169ffd22182c052d2c700d645417ad3439609bf3451b52530f2419? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-7048/)󠁿 [achilles21](https://profiles.wordpress.org/achilles21/) Gwengolo 19, 2017 the plugin has not been updated for a long time, but it still works fine. Thanks ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/48b6facf34adc699ac9d052445540d626bf31ab9ef61cf5f5d0255a3db3912d8? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-68/)󠁿 [nilamintesols](https://profiles.wordpress.org/nilamintesols/) miz Here 28, 2016 Best Plugin Working fine. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/0830d43af8308f7297aefd63d6d9ace54e8f867bb274921eb9afa44463aca903? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[I LOVE YOU](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/i-love-you-17/)󠁿 [aka101](https://profiles.wordpress.org/aka101/) Gwengolo 3, 2016 I was trying to find from a long time and this plugin just fixed my issue’s in no time. Thank you for making such a great plugin. [ Read all 23 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Remove Taxonomy Base Slug” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Alexandru Vornicescu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvorn2/) [Translate “Remove Taxonomy Base Slug” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.1 * Fixed a little bug. * Added Multisite support. #### 2.0 * Fixed: A bug in PHP 5.4 + some other bugs * Added: Admin Panel with the list of all taxonomies. #### 1.2 * Fixed: Auto update permalinks after adding new terms. #### 1.1 * Fixed a bug with hierarchical terms. #### 1.0.1 * Some small bug fixes. #### 1.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **2.1** * Last updated **8 years ago** * Active installations **5,000+** * WordPress version ** 3.4 or higher ** * Tested up to **3.9.40** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/) * Tags * [category](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/category/)[rewrite](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rewrite/) [slug](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/slug/)[tag](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/tag/) [taxonomy](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/taxonomy/) * [Advanced View](https://bre.wordpress.org/plugins/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/advanced/) ## Ratings 4.8 out of 5 stars. * [ 22 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 1 1-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/remove-taxonomy-base-slug/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Alexandru Vornicescu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexvorn2/) ## Support Got something to say? 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