10 Best Automatically Update Permalinks Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Automatically Update Permalinks has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Automatically Update Permalinks
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Admin Slug Column
Closest match4.9 (31) 5,000+ active installsAdds a URL path column to all admin post type edit screens. Works with posts, pages, and any custom post type including WooCommerce products.
Shares the permalink, slug tags on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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5.0 (33) 10,000+ active installsRemove custom post type base slug from url
Shares the permalink, slug tags on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated December 1, 2025.
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4.7 (33) 800+ active installsIt checks the Permalink and redirects to the new URL, if it doesn't exist. It sends the header message "moved permanently 301"
Shares the permalink, url tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since April 24, 2020.
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Remove Category URL – Remove 'category' base from category permalinks
4.2 (59) 40,000+ active installsRemove Category URL strips the /category/ base from your category URLs, turning something like /category/my-category/ into simply /my-category/.
Shares the permalinks, slug tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Permalink Manager
Paid version availablePermalink Manager Lite
4.8 (176) 100,000+ active installsPermalink Manager enhances WordPress’s built-in URL system, allowing you to change the URLs of native and custom post types and taxonomies.
Shares the permalink, permalinks tags on WordPress.org. About 50 times the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.1 (116) 100,000+ active installsA powerful WordPress plugin for full URL control. Set custom permalinks, auto-redirects, and use dynamic tags for ideal site structure and SEO.
Shares the permalink, url tags on WordPress.org. About 50 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.8 (71) 200,000+ active installsEdit the permalink of custom post type.
Shares the permalink, url tags on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated May 20, 2026.
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4.8 (23) 5,000+ active installsThis plugin can remove specific taxonomy base slug from your permalinks (e.g. "/genre/fiction/" to "/fiction/").
Shares the slug tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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5.0 (26) 1,000+ active installsMaking sense of the rewrite mess. Display and play with your rewrite rules.
Shares the permalinks tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, no update since May 12, 2011.
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4.4 (23) 20,000+ active installsThis is a fix of Top Level Categories plugin for Wordpress 3.1. and above.
Shares the permalink tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since September 3, 2025.
Switching from Automatically Update Permalinks: common questions
What is the best alternative to Automatically Update Permalinks?
Admin Slug Column is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Automatically Update Permalinks alternative has the most users?
Custom Post Type Permalinks, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Automatically Update Permalinks alternative is rated highest?
Permalink Manager, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 176 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Automatically Update Permalinks alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Automatically Update Permalinks score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Automatically Update Permalinks on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Admin Slug Column is the closest match to Automatically Update Permalinks by the data we track, and Custom Post Type Permalinks has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Remove Category URL shipped the most recent release, on August 20, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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