By default, WordPress category permalinks are displayed that way:
http://www.wordpresscreme.com/category/reviews
As you can see, the category in the url is pretty useless. Here’s how to remove it:
First backup your .htaccess file. Then, open it and append the following line:
RewriteRule ^category/(.+)$ http://www.yourblog.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Once saved, your categories pages will be displayed like this:
http://www.wordpresscreme.com/reviews
How will this work with subcategories? Will they automatically append to the end of the URL with no problem?
Ex: mysite.com/category/catname/subcatname >> mysite.com/catname/subcatname
In some cases didn’t work in subcategories, if this your case, you can use 2 plugins: Decategorizer and Redirect plugins.