Best slug plugins for WordPress
The most popular slug plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Custom Permalinks leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Remove Category URL (40K+) and Remove CPT base (10K+). All 104 plugins tagged “slug” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 slug plugins
- 1.Custom Permalinks
The most installed slug plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 116 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.Remove Category URL
40K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 61 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Remove CPT base10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 33 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Admin Slug Column5K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.Remove Taxonomy Base Slug
4K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 23 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 6.Wenprise Pinyin Slug
4K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 7.WP Author Slug
3K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 19 reviews, updated 2 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
Remove Taxonomy URL1K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 6 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 9.LONG URL MAKER
1K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 6 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 10.
Automatically Update Permalinks1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 104 plugins tagged “slug”
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
Remove Category URL
Up in the last 7 days:2#830by Themeisle20 days ago
Remove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.3(61)
- Downloads
- 330/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

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
Remove Taxonomy Base Slug
Down in the last 7 days:6#3,265by Alexandru Vornicescu9 years ago
This plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.8(23)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Wenprise Pinyin Slug
Up in the last 7 days:17#3,548by Amos Lee(一刀)1 year ago
自动转换 WordPress 中的中文文章别名、分类项目别名、图片文件名称为汉语拼音或英文翻译。
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 17/day
WP Author Slug
#4,153by Konstantin Obenland2 months ago
Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.8(19)
- Downloads
- 22/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
LONG URL MAKER
Down in the last 7 days:36#5,531by kp11 years ago
เพื่อ URL ที่ยาวขึ้น และสมบูรณ์
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(6)
- 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

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
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
Slug or PostID
Up in the last 7 days:10#8,112by unimakura13 years ago
This plugin uses Slug or PostID for PostName. It is done automatically.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Simple Regenerate Slug
Down in the last 7 days:11#9,154by Sunny Patel1 year ago
Regenerate slugs from post titles with enable/disable options and custom post type support. Easy to configure with admin settings.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 4.2(10)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Remove Taxonomy Slug
Up in the last 7 days:40#9,674by Akshay Shah8 months ago
Remove taxonomy slugs from URLs for cleaner, SEO-friendly permalinks with simple settings and minimal technical setup.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

WP Slug Post Type Custom Language (Polylang)
Up in the last 7 days:13#11,109by carlosramosweb3 years ago
Change your internal URLs (Slug) of your custom Post Type to the desired language of the system (Polylang).
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 7/day

Slug Search and Admin Columns
Up in the last 7 days:93#11,303by Code and core13 days ago
Enhance your WordPress admin with powerful slug search, sortable ID and Slug columns, and flexible settings for better content management.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 17/day
WP SEO Redirect 301
Down in the last 7 days:32#11,877by MMDeveloper5 years ago
WP-SEO-Redirect-301 is a WordPress plugin that remembers your old urls and redirects users to the updated url, to prevent 404s when urls change
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.0(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day
PP Auto Thai URL
Down in the last 7 days:194#13,357by preukson15 years ago
ช่วยให้เว็บของคุณมี URL ภาษาไทยที่ยาวขึ้น
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Slug as body class
Up in the last 7 days:43#13,891by Carlo Roosen12 years ago
Add a unique class to the body tag for easy styling of individual pages
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Remove Parent Category from Slug
Down in the last 7 days:86#14,742by Sirius Pro1 year ago
Simply Remove Parent Category from Slug and show only child category in WordPress permalink.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Auto Clean URL for SEO
Down in the last 7 days:30#15,440by apasionados9 months ago
Auto Clean URL for SEO removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs (URLs) in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Slug Automator
Up in the last 7 days:233#16,546by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)25 days ago
Automatically generates URL-friendly slugs from post titles using the WordPress AI Client.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Remove Special Characters on Upload
Up in the last 7 days:53#16,943by Douglas Faria3 years ago
A plugin that will help you remove special characters from the name of your files.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
French Slugs
Up in the last 7 days:59#18,964by Residence mixte13 years ago
Changes simple quotes (apostrophes) to dashes (-) to keep slugs readable and SEO friendly, mostly in French.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

OKCOM Sort and Show ID Slug Thumbnails
Up in the last 7 days:101#19,597by okcom1256 years ago
With sorting function, ID, slug, thumbnail, and character count are displayed.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Pinyin Slug
Down in the last 7 days:138#19,703by 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

Aucor URL Sanitizer
Down in the last 7 days:26#19,911by Generaxion7 years ago
Converts Cyrillic, Georgian, Arabic and Chinese characters in post, term slugs and media file names to Latin characters.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PP Auto Thai Date
Down in the last 7 days:179#20,084by preukson15 years ago
เป็นปลั๊กอินเอาไว้สำหรับเปลี่ยนวันที่จากภาษาอังกฤษเป็นภาษาไทย
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Regenerate Post Slug on Save
Up in the last 7 days:28#20,900by dpoakaspine8 years ago
Regenerate the post (or any other post type) slug on each save. Useful if you want to mass edit slugs for example.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SLUG TRANSLATER
Down in the last 7 days:33#22,598by Isamu Takeda1 year ago
Translate the slug generated in Japanese into English and replace it with an appropriate format.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Auto-slug
Up in the last 7 days:67#23,331by num8er11 years ago
This plugin generates unicode slug from title You're writing and replaces %postname% part of permalink.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Alternative Slug by 010Pixel
Up in the last 7 days:62#23,970by 010pixel8 years ago
Create alternative slug (url) for each page, post or custom post type which will redirect to same main page.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
RA
Down in the last 7 days:1#24,103by skuramoto11 years ago
When the multi-byte character is used in slug of new creation post, it changes so that post_type and post_ID may be used.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Arabic to Latin
Down in the last 7 days:1,228#24,576by Khusam Alfas3 days ago
Turn Arabic, Persian and Urdu slugs into clean URLs in English letters: posts, pages, products, categories, files. Works with multilingual plugins.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Bake Posts
Down in the last 7 days:19#26,348by wpnaga7 years ago
Bake Post can be used to display recent posts and posts from particular category and tags. (Not compatible for Multisites)
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Strings Sanitizer
#26,521by Prospek Creation14 years ago
Aggressively sanitizes titles for clean, SEO friendly post slugs, and media filenames during upload.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mobile Redirect With Slug
Up in the last 7 days:377#26,575by jojoee6 years ago
Redirect to mobile site (with or without slug url)
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Slugmatic
Up in the last 7 days:221#26,701by Celery Software LLC2 months ago
Add a sortable Slug column to any post type — and switch it on or off per type from one simple settings page.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Seraphinite Alternative Slugs Manager
#27,590by Seraphinite Solutions2 years ago
Avoid URL redirection errors by managing old and alternative slugs to improve SEO.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SlugMaster
Down in the last 7 days:24#27,660by David Garthe4 months ago
Customize author slug, user nicename, author archive, and custom slug URLs with full WordPress route control.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simula Friendly Slugs for Arabic Sites
Down in the last 7 days:289#27,918by SiMULA5 months ago
Automatically generate friendly slugs for posts/pages with Arabic titles via transliteration, 3arabizi or translation.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

NPC Slug Genius
Down in the last 7 days:139#28,976by npc0119 days ago
Automatically generates short English URL slugs from Japanese post titles using AI. BYOK (Bring Your Own Key).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Slug for attached posts by image galleries
Up in the last 7 days:752#29,347by clapas15 years ago
The Slug4apig plugin allows WP users to edit the SEO friendly URL (aka slug) for the autogenerated attachment posts created by the built WP gallery.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Edit Category Slug (Multisite)
Down in the last 7 days:157#29,419by Sergey Biryukov15 years ago
Allows to specify or edit a category slug in WordPress Multisite.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Banglish Slug Converter
#29,484by Sirajum Mahdi1 year ago
Automatically converts Bengali post and page titles into SEO-friendly "Banglish" slugs using Avro transliteration for better URL readability.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Slugify
Up in the last 7 days:364#29,689by Replace11 years ago
Extends the default WP slug generate functionality
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

R3DF Multisite Blog Slug Remover
#30,209by Rick Radko11 years ago
Removes the '/blog' slug from the main site permalinks in a multisite.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Auto Update Page Links
#30,688by Mohammad Irfan1 year ago
Automatically updates links in Gutenberg blocks, templates, menus, and content when you change a page URL.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

SSM Image Import Helper
#31,640by bmeisler8 years ago
This plugin helps you maintain better image names, titles and alt tags. It does not add anything to your database, and can be turned on an off without …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day