Exclude subcategories from the url

If you go to Settings->Permalinks you should be able to set the tag/category base URL rules which should solve this problem.

Or, use some sort of plugin to do what you want. This one came up first on Google: http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-permalinks/

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