Permalink Manager Lite
Permalink Manager extends WordPress’s native permalink functionality, giving you more control over URL structures for custom post types, and taxonomie …
4.8
(176 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Permalink Manager Lite running.
Tested to 7.1.3
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.17 days ago
At least 11.5 releases a year since launch. WordPress.org only lists versions still available for download, so the real number may be higher.5.4
Your host must be running at least this version.5.3.0
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A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Permalink Manager Lite is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
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out of 100Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
14 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
4.8
176 ratingsPermalink 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.
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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%. - Remove the Post Type or Taxonomy Slug
The plugin lets you remove the base slug, such as/portfolio/or/event/, from custom post type and taxonomy URLs. - Add Taxonomies to CPT URLs
Add category-based permalinks to posts and custom post types, with support for primary categories set in your SEO plugin. - Translate Permalinks
With WPML or Polylang active, Permalink Manager allows you to translate slugs and use a different URL structure for each language. - Control Parent Slugs
Remove or keep parent slugs in permalinks for pages and other hierarchical post types.
Additional Features Available in Permalink Manager Pro
The free version includes all the essential features. Permalink Manager Pro adds full support for custom taxonomies and WooCommerce, along with a few additional functionalities. See all Pro features.
- Custom Taxonomies Support
Taxonomies are fully supported in the premium version (categories, tags & custom taxonomies). You may adjust individual term permalinks or change them all at once using “Permastructures”. - Full WooCommerce Support
Permalink Manager Pro may be used to change the URL addresses of WooCommerce products, tags, categories, and attributes. For example, you can remove /product/ and /product-category/ from WooCommerce URLs or add SKUs to product permalinks. - Custom Fields Support
Add custom field values to your URLs from ACF and other custom field plugins, with no coding required. - Extra Redirects
Define extra redirects (aliases) for any post, page, or term. Additionally, you may assign a redirect URL to each post/term, which will take users to any external URL address. - REST API
Read and update custom permalinks and redirects through the WordPress REST API.
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.
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.
This requires Permalink Manager Pro, which supports WooCommerce products, categories, tags and attributes. See how to remove /product/ and /product-category/ from WooCommerce URLs.
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.
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.
Yes, it is possible if you are using either WPML or Polylang. You can find the full instructions here.
Currently, there is no 100% guarantee that Permalink Manager will work correctly with Buddypress.
Yes, if you used Permalink Manager only to regenerate the slugs (native post names). Please note that if you use custom permalinks (that differ from the native ones), they will no longer be used after the plugin is disabled.
It is because Permalink Manager overwrites one of the core WordPress functionalities to bypass the rewrite rules (“regular expressions” to detect the posts/pages/taxonomies/etc. and another parameters from the URL) by using the array of custom permalinks (you can check them in “Debug” tab) that are used only by the plugin.
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