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Absolute Relative URLs — WordPress SEO Plugin

by intuitart · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.6.2 Tested up to WP 5.7.17

Absolute Relative URLs has 1,000+ active installs on WordPress.org and 28,052 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on April 2, 2021, tested up to WordPress 5.7.17.

Absolute Relative URLs at a glance

Active installs
1,000+
Total downloads
28,052
Downloads, last 30 days
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available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is Absolute Relative URLs well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Behind
tested up to WordPress 5.7.17, not yet with the current 7.1

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • Develop/stage in one domain, go live in another
  • Backup a production site from one domain, restore to a test site at another domain
  • Migrate from one domain to another with minimal effort
  • Ease migration between stand alone and multi-site installations
  • Ease migration between domain and sub-folder installations
  • Switch between ssl and non-ssl sites
  • Always present your content in an SEO friendly way

Absolute Relative URLs reviews and ratings

6 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
3.0 out of 5

6 reviews

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  • Useless

    Not doing anything with WP 5.8

    tsf999

  • Useless

    Not working on already saved post so for me is useless.

    amihaita

  • Not working!

    I switched to https, so I tried to use this plugin to change images urls to relatives (in pages and posts), but it doesn't change anything: urls remain absolutes.

    Annonnimmo

  • Must use for staging, SSL sites and multisite-blogs

    <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">Awesome! Thanks for this plugin!<br>I’m still asking myself how one could work without a plugin like this one? WordPress out of the box does not support staging or even switching from a subdomain-blog to a FQDN. Adding SSL support to pages afterwards would be a disaster without this plugin!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">I’ve been using >Root Relative URLs for ages but that is no longer maintained and does not work e.g. with Google’s reCaptcha. This one is a great successor and does the job very well and even better.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">---</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">As of WP v.6.4.1 (2023-11) this still works like a charm. And I still highly recommend this plugin!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">A hint to people having trouble understanding what this plugin does:<br>It will remove the base url from links when saving e.g. a page and adds it back when being loaded or viewed.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">That means: <span style="text-decoration: underline;">After you activated it, it will do nothing.</span></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">This is a nice behavior, because the plugin doesn't know what you want. And instead of trying to do magic that might fail, you have to update your content by yourself.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">This can either be done by re-saving every page/post manually or by using your DB tool and doing a simple string replacement that removes the base url from internal links like this:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">update wordpress.wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content,'https://www.example.com','') where post_content like '%https://www.example.com%';</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p class="">And in fact, you won't see a change

    dichternebel

  • Works as expected!

    If disable plugin (or when it's missing) - existing relative URLs are still working in both modes - editing and viewing. So, enabling/disabling plugin can be used to test actual plugin working, if you don't have access to DB to check what actually stored. Thanks!

    zalexua

  • Thank you

    Plug in and it works

    simp13

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Details

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The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

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Tags

  • absolute
  • portable
  • relative
  • seo
  • url
Version
1.6.2
Last updated
Apr 2, 2021
First published
Mar 11, 2016
Requires WordPress
4.4.0
Tested up to
5.7.17
Requires PHP
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Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

Absolute Relative URLs FAQ

What does Absolute Relative URLs do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, Absolute Relative URLs offers Develop/stage in one domain, go live in another, Backup a production site from one domain, restore to a test site at another domain, Migrate from one domain to another with minimal effort, Ease migration between stand alone and multi-site installations and Ease migration between domain and sub-folder installations.

How many active installs does Absolute Relative URLs have?

WordPress.org reports 1,000+ active installs for Absolute Relative URLs as of September 7, 2026.

Is Absolute Relative URLs still maintained?

The last release was on April 2, 2021, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.

Is Absolute Relative URLs free?

Absolute Relative URLs is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.