German Slugs

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1. ★★★★★ Christian Sabo

   10.4y ago

   one of the standard plugins I use

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2. ★★★★★ Gahapati

   11.2y ago

   Solange dies nicht geschieht, ist German Slugs („Deutsche Adreßabschnitte“) erste Wahl für jene, denen es nicht egal ist, ob ihr Beitragstitel nach der Umwandlung in einen Adreßabschnitt noch zu lesen ist. Das Plugin kann bei Bedarf leicht um weitere Transliterationen ergänzt werden. Der Aufbau des Plugins ist so einfach, daß es schwer ist, dabei Fehler zu machen. Um weitere Buchstaben korrekt zu ersetzen, braucht in der Datei lib.php nur jeweils eine Zeile hinzugefügt zu werden. Weitere von WordPress nicht richtig umgewandelte Buchstaben sind beispielsweise Åå und €. Die einzufügenden Zeilen lauten in diesem Fall: $title = str_replace('Å', 'aa', $title); $title = str_replace('å', 'aa', $title); $title = str_replace('€', 'Eur', $title); German Slugs ought to be pre-installed in German versions of WordPress As long as that isn’t the case, German Slugs is the number one choice for those who care whether their German post titles can still be read after they’ve been converted into slugs. Additional transliterations can easily be added when needed. The plugin’s structure is so simple, it’s hard to go wrong. If you want additional characters to be transliterated correctly, you just have to type one short line each within the plugin’s file lib.php. The letters Åå and € are examples of characters that are still handled incorrectly by WordPress. The above code shows what needs to be added to lib.php to fix that. This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by Gahapati. Reason: Added tags;Updated version/compatibility

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3. ★★★★★ Tim Pritlove

   11.7y ago

   Does what it says on the tin and didn’t break anything. A more general plugin covering more than just german diacriticals would be helpful but for german blogs this is just right.

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4. ★★★★★ Stefan

   12.5y ago

   this is the only german umlaut plugin that correctly removes the accents from non-german slugs in addition to correctly converting german umlauts. So this plugin should be used especially for multilanguage sites when german and e.g. french languages are used simultaneously!

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5. ★★★★★ salem80

   13.5y ago

   I have German language sub domain and it work great

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-04-12 900+ → 800+ down after 71 days in tier
2. 2026-01-31 1K+ → 900+ down

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).

• Automatically Update Permalinks 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags C
• de_DE 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• Default Permalink 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• C Change Core Slugs 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
• Custom Post Type Permalinks 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Custom Permalinks 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B

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German Slugs: 800+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/german-slugs