how to change only category link in wordpress?

[amith_ami]

hi all
i want to change my wordpress site category url.
now its like this mysite.com/?cat=1 ,but i want to change it like this
mysite.com/?category=sports . i dont know how to make this.

pls help me to do this. tnx in advnc

[mrvijayakumar]

Instead of this structure mysite.com/?category=sports. why dont you try the permalink structure like this mysite.com/category/sports? Structure which i mentioned also good for SEO.. :)

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[amith_ami]

tnx 4 ur reply @ mrvijayakumar
but i want to do it without changing permalink from default...
can u help me to do that...

[mrvijayakumar]

This is not a proper solution, but it may help you somewhat

$category_id = get_cat_ID($_REQUEST['category']);