Best permalinks plugins for WordPress

Nginx Helper

Up in the last 7 days:1#258

by rtCamp2 months ago

Cleans nginx's fastcgi/proxy cache or redis-cache whenever a post is edited/published. Also does a few more things.

Permalink Manager Lite

Up in the last 7 days:1#395

by Maciej Bis5 days ago

Permalink Manager extends WordPress’s native permalink settings, giving you more control over URL structures for custom post types and taxonomies.

Remove Category URL

#829

by Themeisle22 days ago

Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.

AutoConvert Greeklish Permalinks

Up in the last 7 days:3#905

by Dimitris Mavroudis9 months ago

Convert Greek characters to Latin on all your site's permalinks instantly.

Simple Post Type Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:6#2,340

by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)7 years ago

Easy to change Permalink of custom post type.

Longer Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:16#2,474

by antithesisgr1 year ago

Allow long permalinks in your WordPress. Useful especially for using non-latin characters in permalinks. Respects future relevant core updates.

No Category Parents

Up in the last 7 days:14#2,706

by Sergio Milardovich2 months ago

Removes the mandatory 'Category Base' and every parent category from your category permalinks.

Custom Permalink Editor

Up in the last 7 days:16#3,334

by Kings Crest Global10 months ago

Set Custom Permalink Editor on a per-post, per-tag per-page, and per-category basis.

Pinyin Slugs

Up in the last 7 days:3#4,125

by Pieter Bos2 months ago

Transforms Simplified or Traditional Chinese character titles into Pinyin to create a permalink friendly slug.

Greeklish Slugs

Down in the last 7 days:3#4,142

by skapator4 years ago

Translitaration of greek characters to latin for post permalinks with some extra options. (greeklish)

Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer

Down in the last 7 days:20#5,260

by Jan Fabry15 years ago

Making sense of the rewrite mess. Display and play with your rewrite rules.

Greek Multi Tool

Up in the last 7 days:39#5,517

by bigdrop.gr25 days ago

Latin permalinks and media file names for Greek sites (ELOT 743), one-click conversion of old Greek URLs with 301 redirects, and an accent checker.

Automatically Update Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:9#5,886

by WP Zone2 years ago

Automatically updates the permalink (slug) of a post or page when its title is changed.

Custom Post Type Rewrite

Up in the last 7 days:1#6,144

by thingsym5 months ago

Custom Post Type Rewrite plugin adds default custom post type permalinks.

Permalinks Moved Permanently

Up in the last 7 days:10#7,793

by microkid9 years ago

If you just migrated your Wordpress blog from one permalink structure to another, and you don't want to lose Pagerank or traffic that accesses yo …

Debug Bar Rewrite Rules

Down in the last 7 days:27#7,920

by Oleg Butuzov2 years ago

Debug Bar Rewrite Rules adds a new panel to Debug Bar that displays information about WordPress Rewrites Rules (if used).

Custom Fields Permalink 2

Up in the last 7 days:28#8,949

by 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.

Url Rewrite Analyzer

Down in the last 7 days:13#9,677

by M.Code3 months ago

See clearly and understand how WordPress rewrite rules work within a simple and clean interface

WP Permastructure

Down in the last 7 days:29#9,938

by Robert O'Rourke3 years ago

Adds the ability to configure permalinks for custom post types using rewrite tags like %post_id% and %author%.

Advanced Permalinks

Up in the last 7 days:4#10,044

by John Godley14 years ago

Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects.

Rewrite Rule Testing

Up in the last 7 days:2#10,897

by Matthew Boynes12 years ago

Unit test your rewrite rules from the WordPress Admin.

Hikari Category Permalink

Down in the last 7 days:28#10,974

hikari-category-permalink16 years ago

For each post, author can choose which category is used in permalink.

ACF Permalinks

Up in the last 7 days:25#11,043

by athlan8 years ago

Plugin allows to use ACF values in permalink structure by adding %field_fieldname%, for posts, pages and custom post types.

Legacy URL Suffix & SEO Preserver

Up in the last 7 days:16#11,930

by Himanshu Parashar7 months ago

Maintain SEO rankings with custom URL suffixes like .php or .html. Perfect for legacy site migrations, fixing 404s, and preserving link juice.

Cyrillic Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:116#12,044

by pbosakov5 months ago

Automatically transliterates Cyrillic letters in permalinks to their Latin phonetic equivalent. Multi-language. Can convert pre-existing permalinks.

List Children

Up in the last 7 days:64#14,737

by Andy Stratton1 year ago

Use an HTML comment to list links of the current page's children or siblings.

Custom Pagination Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:67#15,120

by Pau Iglesias11 years ago

Custom listing pagination URLs instead default WordPress permalinks like "[..]/page/[number]/"

translit it!

Up in the last 7 days:3#15,401

by Ichi3 days ago

Transliterate Russian slugs locally, or translate them into English with Yandex Translate.

Plugin Name

Up in the last 7 days:64#15,465

by vali petcu14 years ago

Cleans up over 30 problematic characters from your slugs that the original wordpress does not clean:

The Permalinker

Down in the last 7 days:57#15,476

by Andy Stratton1 year ago

Use short codes to dynamically link to your WordPress pages and posts. All you need is the ID. This can come in handy when developing content for Word …

WP Hashed IDs

Down in the last 7 days:45#15,508

by palicao10 years ago

This plugin adds a new permalink tag %hashed_id% which represents the encrypted

Permalinks to Category/Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:111#15,872

by 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 …

Custom Base Terms

Up in the last 7 days:261#18,015

by Art Project Group4 days ago

Change the custom URL structures for author, search, comments, pagination and feed pages.

Pinyin Slug

Up in the last 7 days:69#19,753

by williamlong1 month ago

The Chinese PinYin Slug Wordpress plugin convert Chinese UTF-8 character into English PinYin character from a post slugs to improve SEO.

WCS Custom Permalinks Hotfix

Down in the last 7 days:33#20,058

by Luke America15 years ago

After upgrading to WordPress 3.1.x, many installations suffer broken permalinks for categories and tags. This hotfix repairs the problem.

sCategory Permalink

Down in the last 7 days:178#21,279

by Dmytro Shteflyuk17 years ago

Plugin allows to select category which will be used to generate permalink on post edit page. Use custom permalink option %scategory%.

Greek URL Guard

Down in the last 7 days:23#22,916

by CCDesign.gr2 months ago

Convert new Greek slugs and upload filenames into clean, SEO-friendly Greeklish without changing existing URLs.

Flush Permalinks Button

Up in the last 7 days:286#23,013

by Ashar Irfan3 years ago

A plugin to add a button to flush permalinks in WordPress admin bar.

Permalink Keeper

Down in the last 7 days:154#25,879

by Nordic Hosting5 months ago

Automatically flushes WordPress rewrite rules at regular intervals. Prevents 404 errors and maintains SEO integrity by keeping your permalink structur …

Automatic Subdomains

Down in the last 7 days:103#27,801

by The Jake Group13 years ago

Automatically maps subdomains to page and post permalinks based on post slug.

Go Live URL Update

#28,573

by mafia9910 years ago

This small plugin will Updates all urls and content links in your website.

Permalink Encoding

Up in the last 7 days:52#29,519

by crille15 years ago

This plugin encodes NON-ASCII characters in pretty permalinks by using Percent-Encoding described in RFC3986.

WP Emphasis

#29,850

by Ben Balter15 years ago

One-click implementation of the New York Times open-source emphasis script for highlighting and permalinking text.

R3DF Multisite Blog Slug Remover

#30,217

by Rick Radko11 years ago

Removes the '/blog' slug from the main site permalinks in a multisite.

Disable Search Slug

Up in the last 7 days:105#30,261

by Gary Jones10 years ago

Stops /search/... URLs from working, resulting in a WordPress 404 page not found.

Change Author Base

Up in the last 7 days:304#34,113

by Rathly Marketing5 months ago

Take control of your WordPress author URLs by customizing the default 'author' base to match your brand.

Netfirms Pretty Permalinks

Down in the last 7 days:138#35,440

netfirms-pretty-permalinks18 years ago

This plugin brings pretty permalinks functionality to Netfirms users for both PHP 4 and PHP 5.

Strict Permalinks

#36,246

by dphiffer16 years ago

Restricts permalink syntax and disables permalink editing after a post is published.

Redirect Old Links

Up in the last 7 days:4,457#38,535

by ryanshoover9 years ago

Did you change your permalink structure and now have old links "404ing"? I'll redirect those old links to their new one for you.

Quick Slugs

Down in the last 7 days:5,482#40,448

by tom_riddle17 years ago

Enables you to edit many slugs quickly.