Best URL plugins for WordPress
The most popular URL plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Custom Post Type Permalinks leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of Simple Page Redirect (10K+) and Shortcode Redirect (10K+). All 223 plugins tagged “url” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 URL plugins
- 1.
Custom Post Type PermalinksThe most installed URL plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 71 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Simple Page Redirect10K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 3.
Shortcode Redirect10K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 31 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
Permalink Manager for WooCommerce8K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 26 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
URL Params8K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 37 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 6.WP Force Lowercase URLs
6K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 7.Root Relative URLs
5K+ active installs. Rated 2.9 from 20 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 8.
Custom Permalink Editor4K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.Basic URL ShortCodes
4K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 6 days ago.
- 10.
WP Post Redirect3K+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 5 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
All 223 plugins tagged “url”

Custom Post Type Permalinks
#270by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)17 days ago
Edit the permalink of custom post type.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 4.8(71)
- Downloads
- 2.4K/day

Simple Page Redirect
#2,037by imemine1 month ago
Simple Page Redirect is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin that lets you quickly redirect any post, page, or custom post type to an internal or external …
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 77/day

Shortcode Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:3#2,131by cartpauj2 months ago
Redirect any post or page — with a native block or a classic shortcode. Optional delay. Optional "redirecting" message. Zero configuration.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.3(31)
- Downloads
- 50/day

Permalink Manager for WooCommerce
#2,332by BeRocket16 days ago
Permalink Manager for WooCommerce improves your store permalinks and remove product, product_category and product_tag slugs from the URL.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.9(26)
- Downloads
- 137/day

URL Params
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,460by Jeremy B. Shapiro4 months ago
Short Code to grab any URL parameter from the Query String and display it or display conditional content.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(37)
- Downloads
- 24/day
WP Force Lowercase URLs
Up in the last 7 days:30#2,780by joshbuchea17 days ago
Perform a 301 redirect from an uppercase URL to the lowercase version for all non-admin URLs
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 47/day
Root Relative URLs
Down in the last 7 days:15#2,957by MarcusPope9 years ago
Converts all URLs to root-relative URLs for hosting the same site on multiple IPs, easier production migration and better mobile device testing.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 2.9(20)
- Downloads
- 22/day

Custom Permalink Editor
Down in the last 7 days:4#3,343by Kings Crest Global9 months ago
Set Custom Permalink Editor on a per-post, per-tag per-page, and per-category basis.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 20/day
Basic URL ShortCodes
Up in the last 7 days:7#3,426by Vikas Sharma6 days ago
Simple shortcodes that output essential WordPress URLs inside posts, pages and widgets.
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day

WP Post Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:6#4,076by Marco Milesi1 month ago
Easily redirect your WordPress posts to any external URL with a simple metabox. Lightweight, efficient, and perfect for SEO!
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 34/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

LH Force Lowercase URLs
Down in the last 7 days:3#4,792by shawfactor4 years ago
Perform a 301 redirect from an uppercase URL to the lowercase version for all non-admin URLs
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Bitly's WordPress Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:10#5,078by bitlydeveloper8 months ago
Create short links to your content with Bitly’s WordPress Plugin.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.2(23)
- Downloads
- 17/day
Upload Url and Path Enabler
Down in the last 7 days:9#5,138by Grégory Viguier10 years ago
Get the media upload path and url setting fields back in WP 3.5+.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 15/day
Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing
Down in the last 7 days:16#5,180by haukep6 years ago
Disables WordPress' URL autocorrection guessing feature.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(12)
- Downloads
- 17/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
Speedy Page Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:5#5,871by Geert De Deckere9 years ago
Redirect pages and posts to other locations.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 13/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
Enhanced Custom Permalinks
Up in the last 7 days:7#6,003by Tor N. Johnson1 year ago
Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.1(14)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Permalink Editor
#6,371by Fubra9 years ago
Fully customise the permalink for an individual page or post and globally set the permalink structure for pages, categories, tags or authors.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
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

Change Permalink Helper
Down in the last 7 days:12#7,514by Syde GmbH (formerly Inpsyde)6 years ago
It checks the Permalink and redirects to the new URL, if it doesn't exist. It sends the header message "moved permanently 301"
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 4.7(33)
- 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
Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer
Down in the last 7 days:56#8,200by Mehdi Kabab14 years ago
Quickly add a trailing slash in the URLs if it's missing in the permalink structure.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 6/day

Change Author Link Structure
Down in the last 7 days:164#8,292by wpyb2 months ago
To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Redirect by Custom Field
Down in the last 7 days:3#8,513by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)13 years ago
Changes the URLs pointing to pages and posts which have a "redirect" custom field, using that entry as the URL instead.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.8(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Hide Author Archive
Down in the last 7 days:5#8,541by Tarosky Inc.23 days ago
Hide author archive URL of WordPress.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Password Passthrough
Down in the last 7 days:51#8,624by KaeruCT1 year ago
This plugin allows passwords for password-protected pages/posts to be passed directly through the URL.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(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
Disable / Hide Comment URL
Up in the last 7 days:6#8,737by Sachin Khosla15 years ago
Disable/Hide Comment URL lets you hide the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments block.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(8)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Custom Fields Permalink 2
Up in the last 7 days:53#8,955by 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.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Cart links for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:39#8,956by Soft796 years ago
Easily create a url that will populate a cart
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Advanced Permalinks
Down in the last 7 days:7#10,036by John Godley14 years ago
Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.7(9)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Peter’s Blog URL Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:22#10,123by Peter11 years ago
Use shortcodes for blog URLs, post URLs, and template URLs so that your posts always have the correct internal links.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
External URL Featured Image
Down in the last 7 days:32#10,162by jmarreros6 years ago
Use an external url image as Featured Image for your posts, pages, and other kind of post types.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Redirect Post to URL
Up in the last 7 days:42#10,286by dpoakaspine8 years ago
Redirects a post (or any other any post-type) with a custom field ’redirect’ to another URL
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day

JSM file_get_contents() Shortcode
Down in the last 7 days:17#11,122by JS Morisset10 days ago
A safe and reliable WordPress shortcode for PHP's file_get_contents() function.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Add multiple products to cart via url for Woocommerce
Down in the last 7 days:35#11,514by Alvaro Vasconcelos7 months ago
Add multiple products to WooCommerce cart with native add-to-cart parameters.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Theme
Down in the last 7 days:22#11,642by CyanSmoker14 years ago
Specify the theme (not template, that is already taken care of by Wordpress) you wish to use with each given page or blog post.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.1(12)
- Downloads
- 0/day
URL & Path Shortcodes
Down in the last 7 days:9#12,132by Gilbert Pellegrom14 years ago
This is a simple plugin that allows you to use common WordPress URL's and Paths in the post editor using shortcodes.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Remove Website URL Field From Comment Form
Up in the last 7 days:151#12,428by Prem Tiwari2 months ago
This plugin allows administrators to globally disable the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments form on their site.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Force Domain Redirect
Up in the last 7 days:62#12,858by Nimbus Digital4 years ago
Forces your Wordpress site to load on the domain registered in the WP admin.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Disable Comment Url
Up in the last 7 days:154#13,000by mastergraphiks9 years ago
Nice and simple plugin help you to remove URL from comment to avoid people to do spam comments by posting their urls to your website
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
short.io
Down in the last 7 days:129#13,253by gugu1 year ago
Use short.io generated shortlinks for all your WordPress posts and pages, including custom post types.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/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

WP Autoset Featured Image Plus
Down in the last 7 days:46#13,799by lucia.intelisano11 years ago
Check for an image inside text editor or use external images from anywhere as the featured image of your pages and posts.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- 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

.html for all url
Down in the last 7 days:29#13,899by 1naveengiri9 days ago
Add a .html ending to the URLs of posts, pages, custom post types, GeoDirectory listings and BuddyPress profiles, groups and activity.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SU Blocks
Up in the last 7 days:210#14,194by Takashi Fujisaki26 days ago
A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to create blog cards. Simply enter a URL and automatically fetch metadata to display beautiful cards.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day