title: How to Display Nice URL for Wordpress Category Page?
body: <p>I have a site whose home page shows a single Wordpress category page.  I'm using a custom theme and the index.php file there does a 301 redirect to "mysitename.com/?cat=3".  This page is generated with an event calendar plugin and a lot of custom code.  It works, but the displayed URL is "mysitename.com/?cat=3" which I'd prefer my visitors not see; I'd rather have the URL be just "mysitename.com", "mysitename.com/index.php", or even "mysitename.com/calendar".</p>
  
  <p>The visitor can view "prev month" and "next month", which result in URLs like "mysitename.com?cat=3&amp;eventDate=2010-07&amp;bt=a" -- still within the same category but with additional parameters in the URL.  (I <em>am</em> OK having a more convoluted URL like this shown to my visitors on previous/next month; it's just the initial page URL I'd like to be nicer.)</p>
  
  <p>I've messed around with the permalinks but can't get nice URLs to work correctly that way.  Is there an .htaccess way to do this?</p>