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url plugins
222 plugins in the directory carry the url tag. This page leads with what has moved in the last 90 days, because a ranked list of the biggest ones is available anywhere.
222
plugins
286,440+
combined reach
25
released in 90 days
77%
quiet 18 months+
6
movements in 90 days
What moved
Ownership changes, closures and long-silent plugins that shipped again, over a rolling 90-day window recomputed daily. Events older than 90 days drop off as new ones arrive. The part of this category that a directory listing cannot show. Nothing here says anything about intent.
| Date | Plugin | Installs | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2026 | .html for all url | 100+ | released after a long silence |
| 22 Oct 2026 | WP Force Lowercase URLs | 6,000+ | released after a long silence |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Hide Author Archive | 600+ | released after a long silence |
| 07 Oct 2026 | CC-Redirects | 10+ | released after a long silence |
| 02 Oct 2026 | Viable URL Media Uploader | 90+ | reopened |
| 26 Sep 2026 | Viable URL Media Uploader | 90+ | closed |
Most installed
The 50 most installed plugins carrying this tag, ordered by install band, which WordPress.org rounds to one significant digit. Ordering is adoption only. Nothing here is a recommendation, and no link on this page earns anything. The full directory, all categories together, is in the master list.
| Plugin | Installs | Rating | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custom Post Type Permalinks Edit the permalink of custom post type. | 200,000+ | 4.8★ | 15 days ago |
| Shortcode Redirect Redirect any post or page — with a native block or a classic shortcode. Optional delay. Optional "redirecting" message. Zero configuration. | 10,000+ | 4.3★ | 2 months ago |
| Simple Page Redirect 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 … | 10,000+ | 5.0★ | 1 month ago |
| Permalink Manager for WooCommerce Permalink Manager for WooCommerce improves your store permalinks and remove product, product_category and product_tag slugs from the URL. | 8,000+ | 4.9★ | 13 days ago |
| URL Params Short Code to grab any URL parameter from the Query String and display it or display conditional content. | 8,000+ | 5.0★ | 4 months ago |
| WP Force Lowercase URLs Perform a 301 redirect from an uppercase URL to the lowercase version for all non-admin URLs | 6,000+ | 5.0★ | 15 days ago |
| Root Relative URLs Converts all URLs to root-relative URLs for hosting the same site on multiple IPs, easier production migration and better mobile device testing. | 5,000+ | 2.9★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Basic URL ShortCodes Simple shortcodes that output essential WordPress URLs inside posts, pages and widgets. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Custom Permalink Editor Set Custom Permalink Editor on a per-post, per-tag per-page, and per-category basis. | 4,000+ | 5.0★ | 10 months ago |
| WP Author Slug Add a layer of security and prevent your login name from being shown in the author archive's URL. | 3,000+ | 4.8★ | 3 months ago |
| WP Post Redirect Easily redirect your WordPress posts to any external URL with a simple metabox. Lightweight, efficient, and perfect for SEO! | 3,000+ | 4.6★ | 1 month ago |
| LH Force Lowercase URLs Perform a 301 redirect from an uppercase URL to the lowercase version for all non-admin URLs | 2,000+ | 4.7★ | 4 years ago · quiet |
| Bitly's WordPress Plugin Create short links to your content with Bitly’s WordPress Plugin. | 2,000+ | 4.2★ | 8 months ago |
| Automatically Update Permalinks Automatically updates the permalink (slug) of a post or page when its title is changed. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
| Disable URL Autocorrect Guessing Disables WordPress' URL autocorrection guessing feature. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Enhanced Custom Permalinks Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis. | 1,000+ | 4.1★ | 13 months ago |
| LONG URL MAKER เพื่อ URL ที่ยาวขึ้น และสมบูรณ์ | 1,000+ | 4.8★ | 11 years ago · quiet |
| Permalink Editor Fully customise the permalink for an individual page or post and globally set the permalink structure for pages, categories, tags or authors. | 1,000+ | 3.6★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Relative Image URLs Creates relative URLs for images when inserting into posts. | 1,000+ | 4.2★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Speedy Page Redirect Redirect pages and posts to other locations. | 1,000+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| Upload Url and Path Enabler Get the media upload path and url setting fields back in WP 3.5+. | 1,000+ | 4.3★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Absolute Relative URLs Want to host your Wordpress site from a different domain? This plugin will help! | 900+ | 3.0★ | 5.5 years ago · quiet |
| Change Permalink Helper It checks the Permalink and redirects to the new URL, if it doesn't exist. It sends the header message "moved permanently 301" | 800+ | 4.7★ | 6.5 years ago · quiet |
| German Slugs German Slugs properly transliterates umlauts and the letter ß appearing in titles for slugs (i.e. for pretty permalinks). | 700+ | 5.0★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Change Author Link Structure To prevent that usernames are publically visible, the username in the author's permalink is replaced with the author's ID. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 3 months ago |
| Hide Author Archive Hide author archive URL of WordPress. | 600+ | 5.0★ | 21 days ago |
| Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer Quickly add a trailing slash in the URLs if it's missing in the permalink structure. | 600+ | 4.7★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Redirect by Custom Field Changes the URLs pointing to pages and posts which have a "redirect" custom field, using that entry as the URL instead. | 600+ | 4.8★ | 12 years ago · quiet |
| Custom Fields Permalink 2 Plugin allows to use post's custom fields values in permalink structure by adding %field_fieldname%, for posts, pages and custom post types. | 500+ | 4.6★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| Disable / Hide Comment URL Disable/Hide Comment URL lets you hide the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments block. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 15 years ago · quiet |
| Password Passthrough This plugin allows passwords for password-protected pages/posts to be passed directly through the URL. | 500+ | 5.0★ | 16 months ago |
| Relative URL ShortCode 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. | 500+ | 4.5★ | 3.5 years ago · quiet |
| Cart links for WooCommerce Easily create a url that will populate a cart | 500+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Advanced Permalinks Allows multiple permalink structures and category-specific permalinks without needing redirects. | 300+ | 2.7★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| External URL Featured Image Use an external url image as Featured Image for your posts, pages, and other kind of post types. | 300+ | 3.9★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Peter’s Blog URL Shortcodes Use shortcodes for blog URLs, post URLs, and template URLs so that your posts always have the correct internal links. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Redirect Post to URL Redirects a post (or any other any post-type) with a custom field ’redirect’ to another URL | 300+ | 4.5★ | 8 years ago · quiet |
| JSM file_get_contents() Shortcode A safe and reliable WordPress shortcode for PHP's file_get_contents() function. | 300+ | 5.0★ | 8 days ago |
| Add multiple products to cart via url for Woocommerce Add multiple products to WooCommerce cart with native add-to-cart parameters. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 8 months ago |
| Force Domain Redirect Forces your Wordpress site to load on the domain registered in the WP admin. | 200+ | 4.0★ | 4.5 years ago · quiet |
| Page Theme Specify the theme (not template, that is already taken care of by Wordpress) you wish to use with each given page or blog post. | 200+ | 4.1★ | 13 years ago · quiet |
| Remove Website URL Field From Comment Form This plugin allows administrators to globally disable the URL/Website input field from the WordPress inbuilt comments form on their site. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 2 months ago |
| URL & Path Shortcodes This is a simple plugin that allows you to use common WordPress URL's and Paths in the post editor using shortcodes. | 200+ | 5.0★ | 14 years ago · quiet |
| Accessibility Widget by Adally A simple plugin to append Adally's Accessibility Widget script on your website without having you to modify your frontend code. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 6 years ago · quiet |
| Auto Clean URL for SEO Auto Clean URL for SEO removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs (URLs) in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 9 months ago |
| Permalinks with ID for bbPress Transforms default bbPress permalinks (URLs) that use slugs into permalinks that use numeric IDs. | 100+ | 4.7★ | 2 months ago |
| SU Blocks – Blogcard A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to create blog cards. Simply enter a URL and automatically fetch metadata to display beautiful cards. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 24 days ago |
| Case Insensitive URL’s This plugin runs automatically at the beginning of each page load to insure every request is handled in a case-insensitive manner. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 10 years ago · quiet |
| Disable Comment Url 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 | 100+ | 5.0★ | 8.5 years ago · quiet |
| External url as post Featured Image (thumbnail) [ ✅ 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐔𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 b𝓎 𝒫𝓊𝓋𝑜𝓍] Set External-URL as post thumbnail url. | 100+ | 5.0★ | 2 years ago · quiet |
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