If you would like to have a little more nice permalinks to your custom post types articles with custom permalinks - this plugin can help you with this. If the term has the same slug as the post type, then the taxonomy has the priority over the post type.

Now I will show some examples:

(Custom taxonomy:)

From:

site.com/taxonomy/cars

To:

site.com/cars

(Custom taxonomy with child taxonomies)

From:

site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw

To:

site.com/cars/bmw

(Term slug is the same as the post type slug:)

From:

(Post Type:) site.com/cars/ (Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/ (Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/taxonomy/cars/bmw

To:

(Post Type:) site.com/cars/ (will not show) (Term from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars (will show) (Subterm from Taxonomy:) site.com/cars/bmw (will show)

Why should I use this plugin?

Use this plugin if you want to get rid of a custom taxonomy base slug completely. The normal behaviour of WordPress is to add '/taxonomy' to your permalinks if you leave "taxonomy page" blank (ex: site.com/taxonomy/). So your taxonomy links look like "site.com/taxonomy/my-taxonomy/". With this plugin your taxonomy links will look like "site.com/my-taxonomy/" (or "site.com/my-taxonomy/sub-taxonomy/" in case of child taxonomies).

Will it break any other plugins?

I don't think so.

Won't this conflict with pages or post types?

Simply don't have a page or a post type and category with the same slug. Even if they do have the same slug it won't break anything. Priority will be for taxonomies.

Can you add a feature X?

Depends, if its useful enough and I have time for it.

2.1

• Fixed a little bug.
• Added Multisite support.

2.0

• Fixed: A bug in PHP 5.4 + some other bugs
• Added: Admin Panel with the list of all taxonomies.

1.2

• Fixed: Auto update permalinks after adding new terms.

1.1

• Fixed a bug with hierarchical terms.

1.0.1

• Some small bug fixes.

1.0

• First release.

1. Unzip
2. Upload "remove-taxonomy-base-slug" folder to the "/wp-content/plugins/" directory
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Select which taxonomies base slug to remove, go to Plugins -> Remove Taxonomy Base Slug
5. Update your permalinks, go to Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes
6. That's it!