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Automatically Update Permalinks

by WP Zone · Uncategorized

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Automatically updates the permalink (slug) of a post or page when its title is changed.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
55 Health · C
Maintenance 24/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

55 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

2K+

Active installs

≈2.4K estimated

14.5K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.22★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 5 reviews

+50%

187

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 34/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 747 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

187

now · peak 291

18530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Automatically Update · #5064 you Custom Permalink Edi · #3721 German Slugs · #7680 Custom Fields Permal · #8909

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

93per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.0y ago

latest release · v1.0.4

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.4 · 2.0y ago1.0.3 · 4.3y ago1.0.2 · 5.5y ago1.0.1 · 6.4y ago1.0 · 10.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.4K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 3K+ in roughly 123 days.

Install history · since 2016-02-01 · 1,426 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
5 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.4
Last updated
2.0y ago
Added
2015-12-31 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ nd62
    5.8y ago

    Good Job thanks for the plugin developers.

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  2. ★★★★★ skajinet
    8.8y ago

    Плагин реально работает и все выполняется так, как и было задумано. 3 часа искал в интернете решение пока случайно не наткнулся на этот плагин. Автор спасибо тебе!

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  3. ★★★★★ Mladen Gradev
    10.0y ago

    Thank you. This plugin does exactly what it is supposed to, with very simple function.

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  4. ★★★★★ pithiwat
    10.1y ago

    Work like a charm. Thanks.

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  5. ★★★★★ Mike V. Gorbunov
    10.3y ago

    nice and useful plugin. works as advertised.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.0.4 Fix: The plugin functionality was not working for posts created with the block editor (Gutenberg) 1.0.4
  2. — Version 1.0.3 Only disable permalinks for manual post updates (via ) to avoid conflicts with importing plugins etc. 1.0.3
  3. — Version 1.0.2 Change author, tested up, license 1.0.2
  4. — Version 1.0 Initial release 1.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.0

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-08 1K+ → 2K+ up

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