Remove the category from wordpress urls permalink /%category%/%postname% without a plugin

To remove the annoying: example.com/category/%category%/%postname% and get the better: example.com/%category%/%postname% I added this line before the wordpress standard .htaccess code: Options +FollowSymlinks this is the old .htaccess contents: <IfModulemod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> this is …