Active installations20K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.4 / 5 from 23 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org
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WP PlugIndex currently records FV Top Level Categories version 1.9.1 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.
Overview
About this plugin
1. and further versions. It’s purpose is to provide the same behavior as the original plugin, but in new WordPress versions.
The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. com/work for the address of “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert category/ before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.
This plugin works also if you have a permalink structure like %postname% or %category%/%postname% — this wasn’t possible in the original version. However, this feature might not work properly for child categories at this point. Test carefully!
Support
Known Issues / Bugs
Issue with paging and feed URLs when using %postname or %category%/%postname% permalink structure should be fixed.
Uninstall
Deactivate the plugin
That’s it! 🙂
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Plugin tags
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categories
permalink
Compatibility & maintenance
Compatibility & maintenance
Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.
Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.2.1 · PHP not listed
Update activity3 Sept 20251y ago
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