Here is a little trick to better manage your blog permalinks in WordPress. WP No Category Base and WP No Tag Base are two simple plugins which will remove the mandatory category and tag base from your blog permalink structure.
By default WordPress adds “topics” or “tags” to the Category and Tags permalinks. You can change the default values as per your choice but you can’t disable it. That is were you can use the following two plugins to change the permalink structure.
Before the plugins are installed
wpluv.com/topics/category-name
wpluv.com/tags/tag-name
After the plugins are installed
wpluv.com/category-name
wpluv.com/tag-name
Essential reasons to use the plugins
1. Better and logical permalinks
2. Better SEO management. Shorter, more meaningful blog permalinks
Features
1. Simple plug-in. Very little overhead on Webserver resources. No dependency on any other plug-ins.
2. Silent plug-in. No options or anything required. Activate it and forget it.
3. Compatible with sitemaps and hierarchical categories (tags).
4. Rewrite old category (tag) permalinks to new one using 301 (permanent) redirect.
Download the Plug-ins
