Pretty Search Permalinks

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

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

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

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 63% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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

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.

1. ★★★★★ Mohamed Abd Elhalim

   7.3y ago

   Working perfectly.

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2. ★★★★★ artmaug

   10.1y ago

   Lovely plugin, simple and perfect. Five stars for sure! Many thanks to the developer.

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3. ★★★★★ Gahapati

   10.7y ago

   With all the fuss about “pretty permalinks” in WordPress for so many years I find it surprising that WordPress is still withholding from its users an option to set a custom permalink/slug for the search results page. There are quite a number of plugins around which — at least — do away with the ugly /?s=search+terms. But the ones I’ve seen so far do not do the one thing I’m sure everybody has been expecting to see as a WordPress core feature for years, and that is to offer an option on the Permalinks Settings page so that everyone is not stuck with the hardcoded /search/ as only choice. Luckily this is now a thing of the past. After installing and activating WP SEO Search, you can now set your own search results base (slug) on the Permalinks Settings page. Many thanks to Angelica Costa for taking this long awaited extra step! P.S.: Regarding WP Multisite – The plugin can be activated network wide. Setting a custom search base can be/needs to be done per site. Currently the standard slug is /search/, regardless of the language in use.

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

1. Medium · 4.3 SEO Search <= 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2025-12-20 CVE-2025-67626 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.1 Patched in 1.2

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-01-16 90+ → 100+ up after 37 days in tier
2. 2024-12-10 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2024-12-08 80+ → 100+ up after 7 days in tier
4. 2024-12-01 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in tier
5. 2024-11-29 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in tier
6. 2024-11-26 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-11-25 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in tier
8. 2024-11-22 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in tier

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).

• S Search Fixer 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
• P Permalinks to Category/Permalinks 100+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• Custom Post Type Permalinks 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Search Regex 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Relevanssi – A Better Search 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Search & Replace 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C

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Pretty Search Permalinks: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-seo-search