Remove Custom Taxonomy Base From URL In WordPress

Sometimes, an SEO point of view requires to remove custom Taxonomy base from the URL in WordPress.

By default, the inbuilt post has Category & Tags which refer to Taxonomy into the Custom Post Type. Occasionally, We need to create the Custom Post Type with Taxonomy (Category or Tags) to extend the feature of the site.

Now, the site requires to show posts based on Category or Tags (Taxonomy). You have done that but if you look carefully at the URL, there is that Taxonomy (Category or Tags) slug appear which looks ugly in terms of SEO. Now, what to do? In such a case try the following solution.

What We Would Like to Achieve?

Please check this screenshot and ensure that what we are going to do in this article.

Solution

Add the below code into your taxonomy registration.

'rewrite' => array(
       'slug' => '/',
       'with_front' => false
 )

The Most Important Thing That You Have to Do After Code Change

After you’ve altered your custom post type taxonomy document, try to go to Settings > Permalinks and re-save your settings, else you will get 404 pages not found.

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That’s it for now. We hope this article helped you to learn how to remove custom taxonomy base from URL in WordPress.

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