Enhanced Custom Permalinks
Set custom permalinks on a per-post, per-tag or per-category basis.
4.1(14 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, Enhanced Custom Permalinks is a WordPress url plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 14 reviews. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Downloads are up 35% this week. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
4.1/514 reviews
1.0K+active installs
14K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
This plugin is DEPRECATED! Do NOT use it on new installations. It has been updated for legacy support only and no longer will function for new content creation. If you need custom permalinks beyond what WP supports, consider plugins like permalink-manager.
This plugin is a fork of the Custom-Permalinks plugin. It has some expanded bug patches AND is able to interoperate with the WP-no-category-base plugin.
This plugin will allow you to set permalinks in a more precise way – in short you can include sub-folders. A page could have the permalink http://www.example.com/aFolder/anotherFolder/page.html without having to create the intermediate pages or categories aFolder/anotherFolder/.
Be warned: This plugin is not a replacement for WordPress’s built-in permalink system. Check yo…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
throws error, destroys wordpress admn area
by B0RG·9 years ago
this plugin destroys the wordpress admin area, it uses deprecated code.
also the author does not seem to use the DEBUG=true setting for plugin development, what is a sign for very bad quality. Do no use, will kill your site!
Works for the most part
by Peter Petrov·9 years ago
Works great on simple templates, but if you change the permalink of a page using a custom query template with a paged parameter, it returns a 404 error on page/2, page/3, etc.
That's what I was looking for! But…
by Thumb-gb·10 years ago·1 reply
Please add the hint to your Installation guide that you have to change the default setting for permalinks in WordPress!
I had to set this (and would recommend it) to “numeric” otherwise this plugin won’t work and you’ll always receive “404 – page not found” errors.
It was weeks of bloody troubleshooting until I got this issue solved.
Thank you for this great plugin anyway!
Best Plugin For Custom Permalink
by salik Bin Siraj·10 years ago
Best Plugin For Custom Permalink and For me its a Life Saver
Works quite well
by rojer_31·10 years ago
Thanks for this. I can now say ‘there’s a wordpress plugin for that’ 🙂
Download Trends
Today: 1Yesterday: 6This week: 35Period total: 1K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.1
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.1.0 Initial Release
0.1.1 Patch
Updates to allow the plugin to work with newer versions of php w/o warnings by removing calls to mysql_real_escape_string and replacing them with prepared statements.
0.1.2 Patch
Updated code to support modern php and allow older sites to be migrated.
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