I think wp does this to avoid having conflicting rewrite rules in the .htaccess files.
I would like to have /%postname%/ as my rewrite rule in preferences
Now imagine I make a category cats and then I choose cats as a post title
What does http://www.mywebsite.com/cats/ mean? The category cats or my post cats?
even though your example would pretty much avoid that problem unless you have a category named as a plain number
If anyone has a solution, i’d be interested too.
dissursion,
Go into your Options > Permalinks section of your admin panel and regenerate them without /category as the optional custom prefix.
Tnx for the answers.
I’ve set my permalink structure as /%post_id%/. There’s nothing in the optional prefix box, so that leaves me with default. And default seems to be /category. Just giving / does nothing.
ps: following 2 days without computer, so I’ll check back then
