Removing /category/ from URLs

[dealerdan]

I tried searching but I could only see some posts from a year or so ago that were related to this.

For SEO, I would like to remove /category/ from event category URLs.

So instead of:

http://www.mysite.com/events/category/music

It would be:

http://www.mysite.com/events/music/

Is that possible? I’ve tried some category base removal plugins but none seem to have did the trick.

[Barry]

Hi!

It’s definitely possible – perhaps there are even plugins out there that do the same thing for regular post categories that you might be able to repurpose – but I’m afraid it’s the sort of customization that we’d need to leave you to figure out.

Are you observing a notably negative impact owing to the inclusion of “category” in the URLs?

[dealerdan]

Hey Barry,

Thanks for the quick reply. Love how fast the support is on here BTW. Yeah I’ve noticed negative impact with /category/ before and always remove it from my sites immediately. It’s always easy enough to do either with a hack(putting ./ as category base under permalinks) or using any permalink plugins or SEO plugins. And I can get it do it for any posts or pages – just not for the calendar plugin.

[Barry]

That’s interesting to hear (that it does have a negative impact) – and we’d certainly be open to any feature requests you might post for this 🙂

Right at this time though we’d need to leave it to you to figure out any workarounds if you need something in the short term – and since we can’t really offer much else I’ll go ahead and close this thread, but please don’t hesitate to create new ones if we can help with anything else.

Thanks again!

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