Best SEO friendly urls plugins for WordPress
The most popular SEO friendly urls plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Make Paths Relative leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Search URL Beautifier (100+) and Simple SEO Criteria Check (40+). All 5 plugins tagged “seo friendly urls” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 SEO friendly urls plugins
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Make Paths RelativeThe most installed SEO friendly urls plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 15 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Search URL Beautifier100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.
Simple SEO Criteria Check40+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 4.
Nested Blog Posts10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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Ecreate Auto Slug CreatorFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “seo friendly urls”
Make Paths Relative
Down in the last 7 days:9#4,285by Sami Ahmed Siddiqui1 year ago
Convert Absolute URLs to be relative in your fingertip.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.1(15)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Search URL Beautifier
Down in the last 7 days:122#14,386by Dear5 months ago
Convert ugly page/post Search URLs into clean, memorable, share-friendly links to match your brand.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple SEO Criteria Check
Down in the last 7 days:189#21,456by Janine3 years ago
The plugin 'Simple SEO Criteria Checklist" evaluates your post URLs, internal and external post links and image meta data.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nested Blog Posts
Down in the last 7 days:78#30,020by Yaver Abbas8 months ago
Enable parent/child hierarchy for standard Posts and generate nested permalinks like /parent/child/ (unlimited depth).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ecreate Auto Slug Creator
Up in the last 7 days:1,922#62,781by Ecreate Infotech1 month ago
Shorten permalinks automatically. Removes stop words from post and product URLs to give clean, SEO friendly slugs, old URLs included.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day