Remove the category from the WordPress URL. Removing the category from your URL post is easy.
- Go to the Yoast SEO plugin on search appearance.
- Select Taxonomies and scroll down to Category URLs
- Click the remove option and save the changes.
What is Yoast?
Yoast SEO is a search engine optimization (SEO) plug-in for WordPress. This plugin has over 5 million active installations and has been downloaded more than 350 million times with over 25,000 five-star reviews on WordPress.org.
Yoast SEO created it first All in One SEO Pack plugin in 2007 – originally named WordPress SEO: it was developed as a WordPress plugin by SEO consultant Joost de Valk.
In 2012, a premium version of the plug-in was launched. In 2015, Yoast hosted the first YoastCon conference, which was hosted at the Lindenberg Nijmegen Culture House in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
In 2015 a flaw was discovered in version 1.7.3.3 and earlier. The flaw could have left users of Yoast SEO open to hackers and was discovered by a security consultant.
In 2018, Yoast had a total turnover of €10 million
What is a URL?
A Uniform Resource Locator (URL), colloquially termed a web address,
is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
A URL is a specific type of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), although many people use the two terms interchangeably.
URLs occur most commonly to reference web pages (HTTP) but are also used for file transfer (FTP),
email (mailto), database access (JDBC), and many other applications.
Most web browsers display the URL of a web page above the page in an address bar. A typical URL could have the form http://www.example.com/index.html, which indicates a protocol (http), a hostname (www.example.com), and a file name (index.html).
Protocol-relative URLs
Protocol-relative links (PRL), also known as protocol-relative URLs (PRURL), are URLs that have no protocol specified. For example, //example.com will use the protocol of the current page, typically HTTP or HTTPS
