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The Top Level Categories plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page. For example, instead of fortes.com/category/work, I use fortes.com/work for the address my “work” category. WordPress doesn’t allow you to have a blank prefix for categories (they insert category/ before the name), this plugin works around that restriction.

A must have plugin and works like charm

http://fortes.com/projects/wordpress/top-level-cats/