Best absolute plugins for WordPress
The most popular absolute plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP-HTML-Compression leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Absolute Relative URLs (900+) and Absolute-to-Relative URLs (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “absolute” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 absolute plugins
- 1.
WP-HTML-CompressionThe most installed absolute plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 14 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
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Absolute Relative URLs900+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
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Absolute-to-Relative URLs10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 3 plugins tagged “absolute”
WP-HTML-Compression
Up in the last 7 days:8#6,880by Steven Vachon9 years ago
Reduce file size by shortening URLs and safely removing all standard comments and unnecessary whitespace from an HTML document.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.4(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Absolute Relative URLs
Down in the last 7 days:26#7,026by intuitart5 years ago
Want to host your Wordpress site from a different domain? This plugin will help!
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 3.0(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Absolute-to-Relative URLs
Up in the last 7 days:383#29,454by Steven Vachon13 years ago
A function() for use in shortening URL links. This plugin is meant for dev work and does not automatically shorten URLs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day