Remove Taxonomy URL

WordPress prefixes every custom taxonomy term URL with a base slug by default, so a genre archive ends up at /genre/rock/ instead of /rock/. There's no core setting to drop that segment. Remove Taxonomy URL rewrites the term permalinks and query rules for whichever taxonomies you pick, so the base slug disappears from the front end while WordPress still resolves the shorter URL correctly.

The harder problem is what happens after you flip that switch. Version 3.0 rebuilt the plugin around that question: an optional 301 redirect from the old /taxonomy/term/ path to the new /term/ path so search engines and existing backlinks don't hit a dead end, explicit rewrite rules so hierarchical terms resolve at /parent/child/ instead of 404ing, rewrite handling for /term/page/2/ style pagination, and a slug-collision check that warns, without blocking the save, when a term slug matches a page, post, or another taxonomy's term. A Health Check tab ties it together: it can sample your term URLs over a loopback request and report which return 200 versus 404 (falling back to an internal check if loopback requests are blocked), so you can verify the rewrite actually holds before you rely on it. Every 3.0 feature ships defaulted to off on upgrade, so existing installs keep their old behaviour until someone opts in.

It's built for site owners and developers running custom taxonomies (genres, topics, categories of any kind) who want shorter, cleaner term URLs for SEO or usability, and who need the migration itself, old links, nested terms, paginated archives, to keep working rather than just the happy path.

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