#200 by installs
Cyr-To-Lat
Convert Non-Latin characters in post, page and term slugs to Latin characters.
- Installs
- 300,000+
- Rating
- 4.7 (98)
- Updated
- 3 months ago
Converts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters.
| Last updated | August 17, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 7.4 or newer |
| First published | July 4, 2011 |
| Support, last two months | No threads opened |
4.6 / 5 from 51 reviews
| 5 stars | 43 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 2 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 3 |
Cyr to Lat Enhanced automatically converts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post slugs, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters.
It helps maintain clean, readable and consistent URLs on WordPress sites that use non-Latin scripts.
The plugin integrates directly with WordPress core sanitization (sanitize_title and sanitize_file_name) and performs transliteration at the moment slugs and filenames are generated.
It does not modify post content, titles or front-end text. Its scope is strictly limited to URLs and file names.
On activation, existing post and term slugs are converted in the background using safe, batch-based processing via WP-Cron.
WordPress core APIs are used to preserve permalink integrity and existing redirects.
Transliteration is based on an ISO 9-style mapping table with built-in support for:
– Russian
– Belarusian
– Ukrainian
– Bulgarian
– Macedonian
– Georgian
Locale-specific adjustments are applied automatically, and the transliteration table can be customized using a public filter.
Cyr to Lat Enhanced is intentionally lightweight and focused:
– no admin interface
– no settings pages
– no bidirectional conversion
– no data collection or tracking
The plugin continues the cyr2lat / cyr3lat lineage and remains compatible with the original approach introduced by Sergey Biryukov.
Advanced Transliteration
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
You can modify or extend the transliteration table by using the ctl_table filter.
Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file:
function my_cyr_to_lat_table( $ctl_table ) { $ctl_table['Ъ'] = 'U'; $ctl_table['ъ'] = 'u'; return $ctl_table; } add_filter( 'ctl_table', 'my_cyr_to_lat_table' );
By default, the plugin processes slugs in batches to avoid timeouts.
On slower or low-memory servers, you may want to reduce the batch size.
Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file:
function my_ctl_batch_size( $size, $context ) { // Apply the same batch size for posts and terms. return 100; } add_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_batch_size', 'my_ctl_batch_size', 10, 2 );
Yes. You can adjust the final slug value after transliteration and normalization
by using the ctl_enhanced_sanitized_title filter.
Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file:
function my_ctl_modify_slug( $slug, $source, $context ) { // Example: append a suffix to all generated slugs. return $slug . '-custom'; } add_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_sanitized_title', 'my_ctl_modify_slug', 10, 3 );
Yes. You can adjust media file names after transliteration and normalization
by using the ctl_enhanced_sanitized_file_name filter.
Add this code to your theme’s functions.php file:
function my_ctl_modify_filename( $filename, $source ) { // Example: prepend a prefix to all media file names. return 'media-' . $filename; } add_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_sanitized_file_name', 'my_ctl_modify_filename', 10, 2 );
Cyr to Lat Enhanced is a continuation of the original cyr2lat / cyr3lat lineage.
Its purpose is strictly limited to transliteration of post slugs, term slugs and media file names.
The original cyr2lat plugin by Sergey Biryukov introduced a simple and effective way to generate Latin slugs from Cyrillic titles.
#200 by installs
Convert Non-Latin characters in post, page and term slugs to Latin characters.
#866 by installs
Convert Cyrillic and Georgian URLs and file names to Latin. Works for all post types, pages, and terms. Custom characters, URL redirects & more.
#909 by installs
Convert Greek characters to Latin on all your site's permalinks instantly.
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.