This plugin adds IDN support to Wordpress. IDN (Internationalized domain name) is a domain name that contains non-ascii characters.
As of April 2026, IDNA is a WordPress idn plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Google Map V3 for IDN.
This plugin adds IDN support to WordPress, making it an IDNA application. An IDN is a domain name that contains non-ascii characters.
This plugin enables one to set the WordPress address (URL) to an IDN. (instead of the Punycode Representation)
Examples of an IDN:
“An IDNA-enabled application is able to convert between the internationalised
and ASCII representations of a domain name. It uses the ASCII form for DNS
lookups but can present the internationalised form to users who presumably
prefer to read and write domain names in non-ASCII scripts such as Arabic or
Hiragana. Applications that do not support IDNA will not be able to handle
domain names with non-ASCII characters, but will sti…
| WordPress | 2.7+ requiredTested up to 3.0.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Beta Release
* bug fixes: creates invalid urls in RSS feeds (from Chris Ramey)
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