With WordPress it is easy to activate readable URLs. Only the search page is not affected by the setting yet, it comes with the syntax ?s as default. But there is a solution to change the URL as you wish.
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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 …