Best relative plugins for WordPress
The most popular relative plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Relative Image URLs leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Absolute Relative URLs (900+) and Relative URL ShortCode (500+). All 11 plugins tagged “relative” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 relative plugins
- 1.Relative Image URLs
The most installed relative plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 2.
Absolute Relative URLs900+ active installs. Rated 3.0 from 6 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 3.
Relative URL ShortCode500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 4.WP-RelativeDate
100+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Today-Yesterday Dates90+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 6.Protocol Relative Theme Assets
20+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 7.Simple Relative Content
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 8.Relative Site URL on Content Save
10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 9.Relative Links Fix
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 10.Simple Relative Date
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 15 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
All 11 plugins tagged “relative”
Relative Image URLs
Down in the last 7 days:8#6,773by Scott Werner12 years ago
Creates relative URLs for images when inserting into posts.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- 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

Relative URL ShortCode
Down in the last 7 days:6#8,727by mainsufian3 years ago
Now its easy to change domains and keep links and images fine you just need to use this shortcode [base_url] as your base url for links and images.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.5(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
WP-RelativeDate
Down in the last 7 days:88#13,536by Lester Chan3 months ago
Displays relative date alongside with your post/comments actual date.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Today-Yesterday Dates
Down in the last 7 days:111#16,873by Flector1 year ago
This plugin changes the creation dates of posts to relative dates for posts that are dated today or yesterday (relative to the current time, i.e.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Protocol Relative Theme Assets
Down in the last 7 days:698#27,499by ryanjbonnell12 years ago
Transforms enqueued CSS and JavaScript theme URLs to use protocol-relative paths.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Relative Content
Down in the last 7 days:220#29,092by Pierre-André Boissinot12 years ago
This plugin makes all attachments urls stored in database relative to the WP_SITEURL url.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Relative Site URL on Content Save
#32,064by Chris Bratlien16 years ago
Allows you to publish content during dev phase without having to go back and fix your content's static URLs when you switch to the production URL …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Relative Links Fix
#34,798by achellios16 years ago
Corrects Firefox behavior in which pasting formatted content in the editor converts absolute URLs to relative URLs.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Relative Date
#45,153by danivalentin15 years ago
A simple way to turn your post/comment date in its relative versions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day