Setting Category/Tag Slug to "."

Hi,

I was looking for a way to remove the category and tag base slugs from permalinks. Plenty of Googling eventually got me to the simple answer of changing the category and tag base to be a period (.).

This seems to work with categories not problem, url/categories/cat becomes url/cat and seems to work fine.

For tags however url/tags/tag becomes url/tag but when trying to access it it results in the 404 page being displayed.

I’m guessing I need to make a mod somewhere in wp_rewrite to fix this – can anyone confirm and point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Adam M.