Custom Permalinks

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1. ★★★★★ poolingmaster

   2mo ago

   I have a website with thousands of posts on it, and using this for permalinks has caused a slew of issues over the years of me running it. Unfortunately, I’ve got little choice but to keep using it since it has all the data for my permalinks inside of it. The particular issue that I’m currently facing really hurts my website. It causes the inability to bulk edit posts properly. There is a bug in which the first post in the order of the ones I’ve selected has its permalink copied over the posts underneath it. So if I select a bunch of posts in the editor, with the intention of *just* changing tags, it’ll also copy the first post’s permalink to all the ones I’ve selected. When this happens, you have no choice but to go back and manually edit all of those permalinks back. This wastes hours of my time. I almost did this to a lot of pages on accident before I even noticed what happened. It’s hard to recommend something with such a glaringly bad bug. I’m not interested in going out of my way to purchase premium support for something that hasn’t been updated in nearly a year, either. I have nothing I can do except grit my teeth through this and press on. That’s hugely unacceptable in my eyes. I highly recommend skipping over this plugin and finding a different one. There’s plenty of others like it.

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2. ★★★★★ dondonkiii

   1.0y ago

   Did not work… I dont think this is a functional plugin. it has 4 stars in total with lots of 1 stars i guess it is what it is. I deleted the plugin and it is fine now.

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3. ★★★★★ saad7777

   1.9y ago

   blog post are redirecting to some other post. i dunno why. but deactivating this plugin resolved the issue. So the issue must be in the plugin. is there anything i can do in this situation?

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4. ★★★★★ nimonogi

   2.5y ago

   Excellent plugin. I would really like to see categories included as well.

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5. ★★★★★ ddayoverlordwebmaster

   2.7y ago

   Once you have installed this plugin, there is no turning back. These redirections are causing SEO issues and Google won’t index my website because of them. I faced multiple URL crashes when I desactivated the plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ alexnenov

   2.7y ago

   It caused redirect issues and Google stopped indexing many important pages of our site.

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7. ★★★★★ john0zhuang

   3.1y ago

   Thank you very much, this plugin solves a lot of problems

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8. ★★★★★ Ali BZ

   3.3y ago

   Exactly what I wanted

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.1.2 Bug: Prevent adding slash if home_url() contains one 3.1.2
2. — Version 3.1.1 Bugs: PHP 8.x Warnings Admin Polylang Redirect Issue Lost password link conflict Custom Permalinks is conflicting with Gravity View plugin 3.1.1
3. — Version 3.1.0 Permalink Generation: Resolved an issue where the custom_permalinks_generate_post_permalink function was creating duplicate permalinks with appended numbers when triggered programmatically. This ensures a unique, clean U 3.1.0
4. — Version 3.0.1 Fix PHP warning on url_to_postid() filter. 3.0.1
5. — Version 3.0.0 This release of Custom Permalinks brings significant enhancements to post type permalink management, introduces new customization options, and refines the overall user and developer experience. Added Post Type Permalink 3.0.0
6. — Version 3.2.0 Permalink Generation: * Added support for name-based custom taxonomy permalink tags: * %ctax_TAXONOMY_NAME_name% * %ctax_parent_TAXONOMY_NAME_name% * %ctax_parents_TAXONOMY_NAME_name% * Use multiple custom taxonomies tag 3.2.0

3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.4 Custom Permalinks <= 2.6.0 - Authenticated(Editor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-08-23 CVE-2023-0926 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.6.0 Patched in 2.7.0
2. Medium · 6.1 Custom Permalinks <= 1.1 -Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2018-02-26 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.1 Patched in 1.2
3. High · 8.1 Custom Permalinks <= 1.1 - Authenticated SQL Injection ↗
   2018-02-26 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 1.1 Patched in 1.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

Translated into 25 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Plus 1 more locale with partial translations.

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Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Custom Post Type Permalinks 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 4 shared tags A
• E Enhanced Custom Permalinks 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B
• E External Permalinks Redux 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
• P Permalink Editor 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D
• Change Permalink Helper 800+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D
• P Permalink Trailing Slash Fixer 600+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D

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Custom Permalinks: 100K+ active installs, 4.1★ (116 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-permalinks