Get rid of /category/ in URL with the Top Level Categories plugin
Optimising and changing the URL (address) structure is one of the most important things to do with your website - to make it easier for both humans and search engines to use!
WordPress uses the ‘permalink’ structure to make ‘pretty’ URL’s - so http://www.yoursite.com/?p=123 becomes http://www.yoursite.com/about - this works fine with pages in WordPress, but with the category view of posts you end up with a URL of http://www.yoursite.com/category/plugins - not ideal!
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