For some reason, a popular way to remove the /{category}/ base from the Wordpress url in the past has been to edit the URL before it is shown in the browser by perform a .htaccess hack. This can cause a lot of issues, not to mention, you would need to add a similar line for every category you would want to cloak. Luckily, Wordpress has added an apparently little known dashboard option to edit this.

I’ve been working with some freelance clients lately who get very picky with source code. They didn’t want some of Wordpress’s default tags to be displayed in the header of every file. I’m sure I’m not alone, and there are people out there looking for a good solution to this without having to hack into Wordpress’s core files and risk losing any edits with every update. Below is the code to remove some basic tags that Wordpress automatically generates.