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title: How to remove /category/ and /product-category/ from URL with SEOPress
url: "https://www.seopress.org/support/guides/remove-category-from-url/"
lang: en-US
updated: 2025-07-11
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# How to remove /category/ and /product-category/ from URL with SEOPress

With SEOPress Free, you can quickly remove **/category/** and **/product-category/** (or any other category base and/or product category base defined from the Permalinks settings page) from your post and product category archive pages.

To do that, go to your WordPress admin, **SEO**, **Advanced** settings page, **Advanced** tab.

[![Advanced > Advanced tab - SEOPress Free](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/06-02-advanced-advanced-tab-seopress-free-scaled.png)](https://www.seopress.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/06-02-advanced-advanced-tab-seopress-free-scaled.png)

*Advanced > Advanced tab – SEOPress Free*

First step is to enable the **Advanced** settings by checking the iOS toggle (ON by default).

Then check “**Remove /category/ in your permalinks**” and “**Remove /product-category/ in your permalinks**” options.

Save changes.

Finally you must **Flush your permalinks** from **Settings**, **Permalinks** and **clear your cache** if you have one on your site.

We’ll automatically redirect old URL to new ones.

We recommend to define these settings from the **very beginning of the creation of your site**.