5 Best Longer Permalinks Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Longer Permalinks has 8,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 5 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 5 closest alternatives to Longer Permalinks
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AutoConvert Greeklish Permalinks
Closest match4.9 (26) 30,000+ active installsConvert Greek characters to Latin on all your site's permalinks instantly.
Shares the permalinks, slugs tags on WordPress.org. About 3.8 times the installs, last updated February 7, 2026.
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4.6 (51) 80,000+ active installsConverts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters.
Shares the slugs tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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Cyrlitera – Transliteration of Links and File Names
4.5 (58) 40,000+ active installsConvert Cyrillic and Georgian URLs and file names to Latin. Works for all post types, pages, and terms. Custom characters, URL redirects & more.
Shares the slugs tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 17 days ago.
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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. 1,000+ installs against 8,000+, no update since May 12, 2011.
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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 tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from Longer Permalinks: common questions
What is the best alternative to Longer Permalinks?
AutoConvert Greeklish Permalinks is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 30,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Longer Permalinks alternative has the most users?
Cyr to Lat Enhanced, with 80,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Longer Permalinks alternative is rated highest?
Cyr to Lat Enhanced, rated 4.6 out of 5 by 51 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Longer 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 Longer 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 Longer 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
AutoConvert Greeklish Permalinks is the closest match to Longer Permalinks by the data we track, and Cyr to Lat Enhanced has the widest reach with 80,000+ active installs. Cyrlitera shipped the most recent release, on August 21, 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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