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Remove Taxonomy Base Slug

by Alexandru Vornicescu

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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)

  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!

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.

Must have!

By Leeonard (Leeonard89) on October 2, 2020

Great and well done

Worked Perfectly!!

By waleedt93 on March 4, 2019

Worked as per requirement.

Great!

By likafom on May 24, 2018

Just works

Great

By achilles21 on September 19, 2017

the plugin has not been updated for a long time, but it still works fine. Thanks

Best Plugin

By nilamintesols on October 28, 2016

Best Plugin Working fine.

I LOVE YOU

By aka101 on September 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.

Works, and lets you choose

By radgh on September 3, 2016

I needed to make categories and a custom taxonomy called "Industry" have no slug. But some other taxonomies needed to keep them. I wasn't sure if this would affect all taxonomies, but it has an option page to select them.

Simple enough, seems to work just fine!

Nice

By lepressing on September 3, 2016

Great plug in !!!

Not working

By Dark Ard on September 3, 2016

Not working.
It's return 404 error

Beautifully work!

By flickMOV on September 3, 2016

Beautifully work!

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.
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