Best pinyin plugins for WordPress
The most popular pinyin plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Pinyin Slugs leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Pinyin Permalinks (拼音链接) (200+) and CoolWP Pinyin Attachment Name (100+). All 6 plugins tagged “pinyin” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 pinyin plugins
- 1.
Pinyin SlugsThe most installed pinyin plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.Pinyin Permalinks (拼音链接)
200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2.
- 3.CoolWP Pinyin Attachment Name
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 4.
Pinyin Slug60+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.Pinyin Tones
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 6.
Effortless Taiwan Mandarin HelperFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 weeks ago.
All 6 plugins tagged “pinyin”

Pinyin Slugs
Up in the last 7 days:2#4,126by Pieter Bos2 months ago
Transforms Simplified or Traditional Chinese character titles into Pinyin to create a permalink friendly slug.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Pinyin Permalinks (拼音链接)
Down in the last 7 days:39#12,935by 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
CoolWP Pinyin Attachment Name
Down in the last 7 days:60#15,257by suifengtec11 years ago
这是一个将上传附件名称里的中文改为拼音的WordPress插件。
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pinyin Slug
Down in the last 7 days:65#19,664by 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.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pinyin Tones
Down in the last 7 days:7,927#45,255by somemilk12 years ago
This is a small plugin allowing you to turn digital pinyin notation (Chinese transliteration standard) into a diacritic one.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Effortless Taiwan Mandarin Helper
Down in the last 7 days:2,517#73,071by domclic20 days ago
Translate any text into Taiwanese Mandarin with Pinyin and Bopomofo annotations, powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, or WordPress's own core AI Client.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day