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Nginx Helper
Cleans nginx's fastcgi/proxy cache or redis-cache whenever a post is edited/published. Also does a few more things.
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Permalink Manager Lite
Permalink Manager extends WordPress’s native permalink functionality, giving you more control over URL structures for custom post types, and taxonomie …
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #396 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 3.1M
- 3,118,904
- Downloads, 30 days
- 64.2K
- 14.4K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 176 reviews
- Last updated
- 18 days ago
- Oct 13, 2026
- Version
- 2.6.1
- 124 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 13, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 5.3.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.4 or newer |
| First published | January 9, 2016 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 176 reviews
| 5 stars | 162 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 3 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 9 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Permalink Manager gives you more control over WordPress URLs, allowing you to customize URLs directly from the admin dashboard without requiring custom code. You can define a custom permalink structure for any content type or edit individual permalinks separately.
The plugin supports all custom post types and taxonomies and works with popular plugins such as WooCommerce, ACF, WPML, and Polylang.
The free version lets you customize permalinks for posts, pages, and custom post types. With the Pro version, you can also manage permalinks for categories, tags, and custom taxonomies.
Permalink Manager automatically redirects old and duplicate URLs to the correct page, helping prevent broken links and 404 errors.
Buy Permalink Manager Pro | Quickstart guide | Documentation
What You Can Do With Permalink Manager
- Change Single Permalinks
For a consistent and SEO-friendly URL structure, you may customize and change the permalink of each post, page, and custom post type item. Categories, tags & custom taxonomies terms permalinks can be edited in Permalink Manager Pro.
- Customize URL Formats
The Permastructures settings let you override the default permalink structure and define a custom URL format using available tags, including %custom_post_type% and %custom_taxonomy%.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Will the old URLs redirect to the new permalinks?
Yes. Permalink Manager automatically redirects the native permalinks (the URLs WordPress uses before the plugin is activated or after it is disabled) to the custom permalinks. Read more about the plugin’s redirect functions.
How do I remove the post type slug from custom post type URLs?
Set a new format without the base slug for that post type in Permastructures, then regenerate the existing permalinks. The step-by-step tutorial walks through the process.
How do I remove /product/ and /product-category/ from WooCommerce URLs?
This requires Permalink Manager Pro, which supports WooCommerce products, categories, tags and attributes. See how to remove /product/ and /product-category/ from WooCommerce URLs.
Can I use a different permalink format for each language?
Yes, if you use WPML or Polylang. You can translate the slugs and set a separate Permastructure for each language. Full instructions for multilingual permalinks.
Is Permalink Manager suitable for large websites?
Permalink Manager is optimized for standard WordPress websites that typically have fewer than a few thousand URLs. It stores all custom permalinks in a single database row, so the plugin can process URLs with just one database query and keep the impact on page load times to a minimum.
Can I define different permalink formats per each language.
Yes, it is possible if you are using either WPML or Polylang. You can find the full instructions here.
Latest changelog entry
- Dev – Updated Permalink_Manager_Helper_Functions::encode_uri() so that percent-encoded characters are lowercased in the same way as native permalinks
- Dev – Minor code improvements
Screenshots
Permalink URI editor. 
Permalink URI editor in Gutenberg. 
"Find & replace" tool. 
"Regenerate/Reset" tool.
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Where this page's numbers come from
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. The author takes donations at their donate page.