Best permalink plugins for WordPress
The most popular permalink plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Custom Post Type Permalinks leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of Permalink Manager Lite (100K+) and Custom Permalinks (100K+). All 150 plugins tagged “permalink” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 permalink plugins
- 1.
Custom Post Type PermalinksThe most installed permalink plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 71 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.Permalink Manager Lite
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 176 reviews, updated 3 days ago.
- 3.Custom Permalinks
100K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 116 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 4.
FV Top Level Categories20K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 23 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 5.WP No Base Permalink
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 16 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 6.
Remove CPT base10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 33 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 7.
Disable Media Pages9K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 17 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 8.
Simple Post Type Permalinks8K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 10 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 9.
Admin Slug Column5K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Custom Permalink Editor4K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 150 plugins tagged “permalink”

Custom Post Type Permalinks
#270by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)17 days ago
Edit the permalink of custom post type.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.8(71)
- Downloads
- 2.4K/day
Permalink Manager Lite
Up in the last 7 days:1#395by Maciej Bis3 days ago
Permalink Manager extends WordPress’s native permalink settings, giving you more control over URL structures for custom post types and taxonomies.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.8(176)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
Custom Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:2#409by Sami Ahmed Siddiqui26 days ago
A powerful WordPress plugin for full URL control. Set custom permalinks, auto-redirects, and use dynamic tags for ideal site structure and SEO.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.1(116)
- Downloads
- 797/day

FV Top Level Categories
Up in the last 7 days:3#1,304by FolioVision1 year ago
This is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.4(23)
- Downloads
- 49/day
WP No Base Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:5#1,725by Sergio6 years ago
Removes category base or parents categories or tag base from your permalinks. Compatible with WPML Plugin and WordPress Multisite.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.1(16)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Remove CPT base
Down in the last 7 days:41#1,835by kubiq11 months ago
Remove custom post type base slug from url
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(33)
- Downloads
- 44/day

Disable Media Pages
Down in the last 7 days:81#2,187by joppuyo1 month ago
Completely remove "attachment" pages for WordPress media. Improve SEO and prevent conflicts between page and image permalinks.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 5.0(17)
- Downloads
- 69/day

Simple Post Type Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:11#2,341by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)7 years ago
Easy to change Permalink of custom post type.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 27/day

Admin Slug Column
Up in the last 7 days:17#3,169by Chuck Reynolds2 months ago
Adds a URL path column to all admin post type edit screens. Works with posts, pages, and any custom post type including WooCommerce products.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 4.9(31)
- Downloads
- 56/day

Custom Permalink Editor
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,343by Kings Crest Global9 months ago
Set Custom Permalink Editor on a per-post, per-tag per-page, and per-category basis.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 20/day
Basic URL ShortCodes
Up in the last 7 days:7#3,426by Vikas Sharma6 days ago
Simple shortcodes that output essential WordPress URLs inside posts, pages and widgets.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day

Smart User Slug Hider
Up in the last 7 days:2#4,319by WP User Manager15 days ago
Hide usernames in Author Pages URLs to enhance Security
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.9(55)
- Downloads
- 76/day
Top Level Categories
Down in the last 7 days:26#4,590by Fortes9 years ago
This plugin allows you to remove the prefix before the URL to your category page (e.g. example.com/dogs instead of example.com/category/dogs)
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 16/day
External Permalinks Redux
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,761by Erick Hitter9 months ago
Allows you to point WordPress objects (posts, pages, custom post types) to a URL of your choosing.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day

WP Permalink Translator
Down in the last 7 days:22#4,790by Hossin Asaadi7 years ago
Allow admins to translate Permalink to another languages.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
WP Category Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:5#5,040by Jordy Meow8 years ago
Allows manual selection of a 'main' category for each post for nicer permalinks and better SEO.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.8(31)
- Downloads
- 12/day

Remove Taxonomy URL
Down in the last 7 days:17#5,123by sungraizfaryad5 months ago
Strip custom taxonomy slugs from URLs. Optional 301 redirects, hierarchical terms, pagination support, and slug-collision detection.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 23/day

Simple Slug Translate
Down in the last 7 days:1#5,415by Ko Takagi3 years ago
Simple Slug Translate can translate the post, page, category and taxonomy slugs to English automatically.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Automatically Update Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:49#5,892by WP Zone2 years ago
Automatically updates the permalink (slug) of a post or page when its title is changed.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Enhanced Custom Permalinks
Up in the last 7 days:7#6,003by Tor N. Johnson1 year ago
Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Custom Post Type Rewrite
Down in the last 7 days:7#6,144by thingsym5 months ago
Custom Post Type Rewrite plugin adds default custom post type permalinks.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 18/day

SF Author Url Control
Down in the last 7 days:6#6,238by Grégory Viguier10 years ago
Allows administrators or capable users to change the users profile url.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Permalink Editor
#6,371by Fubra9 years ago
Fully customise the permalink for an individual page or post and globally set the permalink structure for pages, categories, tags or authors.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

de_DE
Down in the last 7 days:2#6,668by Frank Bueltge9 months ago
Replace non-ASCII characters for installs that set the German language as a primary language.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Slightly troublesome permalink
Up in the last 7 days:5#6,931by tmatsuur5 years ago
This plug-in controls the category in permalink. When the post belongs to two or more categories.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Change Permalink Helper
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,514by Syde GmbH (formerly Inpsyde)6 years ago
It checks the Permalink and redirects to the new URL, if it doesn't exist. It sends the header message "moved permanently 301"
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(33)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it
Down in the last 7 days:150#7,540by giangel848 months ago
Completely disable the Media Permalink generated by WP.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.1(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
German Slugs
Down in the last 7 days:5#8,030by texttheater4 years ago
German Slugs properly transliterates umlauts and the letter ß appearing in titles for slugs (i.e. for pretty permalinks).
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer
Down in the last 7 days:56#8,200by Mehdi Kabab14 years ago
Quickly add a trailing slash in the URLs if it's missing in the permalink structure.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Change Author Link Structure
Down in the last 7 days:164#8,292by wpyb2 months ago
To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Hide Author Archive
Down in the last 7 days:5#8,541by Tarosky Inc.23 days ago
Hide author archive URL of WordPress.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Custom Fields Permalink 2
Up in the last 7 days:53#8,955by athlan8 years ago
Plugin allows to use post's custom fields values in permalink structure by adding %field_fieldname%, for posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Single Category Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:22#9,423by Scott Reilly5 years ago
Reduce permalinks (category or post) that include entire hierarchy of categories to just having the lowest level category.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:7#10,036by John Godley14 years ago
Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.7(9)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Hikari Category Permalink
#11,002hikari-category-permalink16 years ago
For each post, author can choose which category is used in permalink.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

ACF Permalinks
Up in the last 7 days:56#11,038by athlan8 years ago
Plugin allows to use ACF values in permalink structure by adding %field_fieldname%, for posts, pages and custom post types.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Display Name Author Permalink
Down in the last 7 days:191#11,146by Michael Torbert8 years ago
Replaces the username for author permalinks with the users display name. Returns a 404 if the author permalink using the actual username is used.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Add Hierarchy (parent) to post
Down in the last 7 days:13#12,344by ttodua2 years ago
PLUGIN IS DISCONTINUED!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 8/day
Search Fixer
Down in the last 7 days:13#12,378by bennettmcelwee15 years ago
Search Fixer makes "pretty" search links work properly. A pretty search link usually looks like this:
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Redirect Permallink
Up in the last 7 days:81#12,636by nabtron1 year ago
Efficiently redirect previous urls that were '/postname/post_id/' to '/postname/' automatically. Respects query variables.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Pinyin Permalinks (拼音链接)
Down in the last 7 days:31#12,936by xiaole_tao14 years ago
Generate friendly Pinyin permalink for chinese title 为中文标题生成友好的拼音链接
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Show Page Slug in Admin
Down in the last 7 days:4#13,610by Mytchall Bransgrove2 years ago
A simple plugin to display page slugs directly in the WordPress admin for easy management.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

.html for all url
Down in the last 7 days:29#13,899by 1naveengiri9 days ago
Add a .html ending to the URLs of posts, pages, custom post types, GeoDirectory listings and BuddyPress profiles, groups and activity.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Rewrite Flush Button
Up in the last 7 days:50#14,048by Shaun Scovil13 years ago
Adds a "Flush Rewrite Rules" button to WP-Admin > Settings > Permalinks.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Media Post Permalink
#14,620by Sami Ahmed Siddiqui9 years ago
Media Post Permalink is simply the easiest solution to separate your media/attachment Permalinks.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove More Jump
Down in the last 7 days:41#14,703by Bjørn Johansen10 years ago
Removes the anchor from the permalinks ("read more"-links), so you don't jump halfway down the page.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Product ID Permalink for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:285#15,060by suifengtec10 years ago
Changing WooCommerce Product link to /product/123.html
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Permalinks to Category/Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:78#15,862by Svetoslav Marinov12 years ago
The plugin automatically redirects users who have accessed a blog post link without the category to the one which has the category and therefore avoid …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Permalinks with ID for bbPress
Down in the last 7 days:3#16,010by Nicolas Korobochkin1 month ago
Transforms default bbPress permalinks (URLs) that use slugs into permalinks that use numeric IDs.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 5/day
Permalink Shortcode
#16,051by Ryan13 years ago
Provides a shortcode that allows you to insert permalinks into your content.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day