Remove Taxonomy URL

74 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With about 1,000 active installs, this is a niche utility, but the score is padded by the fact that it is solving a problem most sites never encounter.

Update Freshness

25/25

Last updated June 2026 and tested against WordPress 7.0, so the maintenance signal is strong and recent.

User Rating

13/15

A score of 84 from 6 ratings is decent, but the sample is too small to draw firm conclusions about real-world satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened or resolved is a yellow flag: either the plugin is so simple nobody needs help, or there is no community to help if something breaks.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Requires PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.0+, which covers the vast majority of hosting environments in 2026.

Scores higher than 32% of indexed plugins

About

Strip custom taxonomy slugs from URLs. Optional 301 redirects, hierarchical terms, pagination support, and slug-collision detection.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★ 4.2/5

Last Updated 2026-06-04 7:18am GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 7.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Remove Taxonomy URL strips the custom taxonomy base from your WordPress permalinks, so a URL like /product-category/electronics/laptop/ becomes /electronics/laptop/. It can also set up 301 redirects from the old URLs, detect slug collisions between taxonomies, and preserve pagination on archive pages.

Who It's For

This plugin fits sites with one or more custom taxonomies (cuisine types, job categories, listing types) where the taxonomy slug in the URL is redundant or hurts readability. It is most useful for directory, classifieds, recipe, and real estate sites that need clean URLs without committing to a full rewrite of their permalink structure.

Who Should Skip It

If you only use default WordPress categories and tags, or if you have fewer than a handful of posts, this plugin is overkill. Anyone running a large multisite network or a WooCommerce store with many layered taxonomies should test collision handling carefully before relying on it.

The Bottom Line

Remove Taxonomy URL does one focused thing and does it on a modern WordPress and PHP baseline, which is appealing for the specific sites it targets. The catch is a tiny user base, a tiny rating pool, and no visible support track record, so treat it as a specialist tool and back up your database before enabling it. Worth trying on a staging site if clean taxonomy URLs matter to you; skip it if you need a battle-tested, large-community plugin.

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Custom Post Type Permalinks 86/100

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Redirection 89/100

Pick this if your main concern is managing 301 redirects at scale, with logging and regex support, rather than restructuring taxonomy URLs.

301 Redirects – Redirect Manager 86/100

Pick this for a lighter-weight redirect manager if Remove Taxonomy URL is overkill for your redirect needs.

All in One SEO 98/100

Pick this if your priority is broader SEO (sitemaps, schema, on-page analysis) rather than URL structure surgery.

Custom Post Type UI 88/100

Pick this if you are still building out your custom post types and taxonomies and need to define them before worrying about URL slugs.