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Best URL Slug & Permalink Optimization plugins for WordPress

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Plugins that generate, transliterate, or manage URL slugs and permalinks to make WordPress URLs more readable and search-friendly.

Read from 131,237 plugin records - figures refreshed 2 hours ago

57 Plugins classified here Out of the plugins that have been through the classifier so far
1.3M Combined active installs Summed across the published bands, so read it as an order of magnitude
4.66 Average rating Across the 55 here that carry a rating at all

The plugins

Plugins in URL Slug & Permalink Optimization

Ranked by active installs; plugins in the same published band share a rank. Each page has a maintenance check and the alternatives.

#1

Cyr-To-Lat

cyr2lat 300K installs · 4.7 stars
#2

Custom Post Type Permalinks

custom-post-type-permalinks 200K installs · 4.8 stars
#3

Custom Permalinks

custom-permalinks 100K installs · 4.1 stars
#3

Edit Author Slug

edit-author-slug 100K installs · 4.8 stars
#3

No Category Base (WPML)

no-category-base-wpml 100K installs · 4.5 stars
#3

Permalink Manager Lite

permalink-manager 100K installs · 4.8 stars
#7

Cyr to Lat Enhanced

cyr3lat 80K installs · 4.6 stars
#8

Remove Category URL – Remove ‘category’ base from category permalinks

remove-category-url 40K installs · 4.3 stars
#8

Premmerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce

woo-permalink-manager 40K installs · 3.9 stars
#8

AutoConvert Greeklish Permalinks

autoconvert-greeklish-permalinks 40K installs · 4.9 stars
#8

Cyrlitera – Transliteration of Links and File Names

cyrlitera 40K installs · 4.6 stars
#12

Cyr to Lat Reloaded – Transliteration of Links and File Names

cyr-and-lat 30K installs · 4.5 stars
#13

FV Top Level Categories

fv-top-level-cats 20K installs · 4.4 stars
#14

Remove CPT base

remove-cpt-base 10K installs · 5.0 stars
#14

WP No Base Permalink

wp-no-base-permalink 10K installs · 4.1 stars
#16

Permalink Manager for WooCommerce

permalink-manager-for-woocommerce 8K installs · 4.9 stars
#16

Longer Permalinks

longer-permalinks 8K installs · 5.0 stars
#16

Simple Post Type Permalinks

simple-post-type-permalinks 8K installs · 5.0 stars
#19

No Category Parents

no-category-parents 6K installs · 5.0 stars
#19

WP Remove Category Base

wp-remove-category-base 6K installs · 5.0 stars
#21

Wenprise Pinyin Slug

wenprise-pinyin-slug 4K installs · 5.0 stars
#21

html after URL

html-after-url 4K installs · 5.0 stars
#21

Remove Taxonomy Base Slug

remove-taxonomy-base-slug 4K installs · 4.8 stars
#21

Custom Permalink Editor

custom-permalink-editor 4K installs · 5.0 stars
#25

WP Author Slug

wp-author-slug 3K installs · 4.8 stars
#25

Pinyin Slugs

so-pinyin-slugs 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#25

Greeklish Slugs

skp-greeklish-slugs 3K installs · 4.9 stars
#25

Bulglish Permalinks

bulglish-permalinks 3K installs · 5.0 stars
#29

Add Any Extension to Pages

add-any-extension-to-pages 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#29

WP Category Permalink

wp-category-permalink 2K installs · 4.8 stars
#29

Top Level Categories

top-level-cats 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#29

SP RTL (RusToLat)

sp-rtl-rus-to-lat 2K installs · 3.7 stars
#29

WP Permalink Translator

wp-permalink-translator 2K installs · 5.0 stars
#34

wp-cleanumlauts2

wp-cleanumlauts2 1K installs
#34

Permalink Editor

permalink-editor 1K installs · 3.6 stars
#34

Custom Post Type Rewrite

custom-post-type-rewrite 1K installs · 3.0 stars
#34

de_DE

de_de 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#34

Remove Taxonomy URL

remove-taxonomy-url 1K installs · 4.2 stars
#34

WP Better Permalinks

wp-better-permalinks 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#34

SF Author Url Control

sf-author-url-control 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#34

AXP Cyrillic to Latin

axp-cyrtolat 1K installs · 4.5 stars
#34

Simple Slug Translate

simple-slug-translate 1K installs · 4.5 stars
#34

LONG URL MAKER

long-url-maker 1K installs · 4.8 stars
#34

Ailo – AI Slug Translator

haayal-ai-slug-translator 1K installs · 4.9 stars
#34

Greek Multi Tool

greek-multi-tool 1K installs · 4.6 stars
#34

Enhanced Custom Permalinks

enhanced-custom-permalinks 1K installs · 4.1 stars
#34

Automatically Update Permalinks

automatically-update-permalinks 1K installs · 5.0 stars
#48

Disable Media Permalink by Hardweb.it

disable-media-permalink-by-hardweb-it 800 installs · 4.1 stars
#49

Change Author Link Structure

change-author-link-structure 600 installs · 5.0 stars
#50

Geo to Lat

geo-to-lat 500 installs · 5.0 stars
#51

Remove Taxonomy Slug

remove-taxonomy-slug 400 installs · 5.0 stars
#52

Cyrillic Permalinks

cyrillic-slugs 200 installs · 3.7 stars
#52

Legacy URL Suffix & SEO Preserver

php-to-pages 200 installs · 5.0 stars
#54

Pretty Search Permalinks

wp-seo-search 100 installs · 5.0 stars
#54

Search URL Beautifier

search-url-beautifier 100 installs
#54

Permalinks with ID for bbPress

bbpress-permalinks-with-id 100 installs · 4.7 stars
#54

Auto Clean URL for SEO

auto-clean-url-seo 100 installs · 5.0 stars

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