Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer
Making sense of the rewrite mess. Display and play with your rewrite rules.
5(26 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, Monkeyman Rewrite Analyzer is a WordPress debug plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 73K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 243% this week. Top alternative: WP Crontrol.
5/526 reviews
2.0K+active installs
73K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
This is a tool to understand your rewrite rules (“Pretty Permalinks”). It is indispensable if you are adding or modifying rules and want to understand how they work (or why they don’t work).
It is only an analyzer, it does not change any rules for you. It parses the rules down to their components and shows the connection with the resulting query variables. It allows you to try out different URLs to see which rules will match and what the value of the different query variables will be (see screenshots).
This plugin was written as a tool to help answering questions about rewrite rules on the WordPress Stack Exchange.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple but very helpful
by ciceronepavaloi·2 years ago
Thanks, it helped me clarify what I was doing wrong. 🙂
Good plugins !
by M.Code·4 years ago
This plugin is really useful for specific needs.
But unfortunately not maintained anymore… =/
If someone need and update version of this check this out :
https://wordpress.org/plugin/url-rewrite-analyzer
Features:
– Nice and clean interface
– Remove all PHP warning / notices
– Update code structure
– Compatible with latest WP Version
– Light / Old / Dark UI
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Incredibly useful plugin
by jamieschmid·5 years ago
Still an incredibly useful plugin after all these years. Confirming it works on 5.4.2 with blocks enabled also! I needed it to help make sense of some complex rewrites critical to our AWS load balancer distribution, this plugin was integral in my troubleshooting. It also helped me identify ways to simplify and get rid of superfluous rules being added from all over (manual rules, Redirection, other plugins etc).
I’d like to see the owner update this so more people will know it’s safe to use. Or if it’s abandoned, someone take it over! This is a great developer resource that’s probably being overlooked.
Works also with WP 5.3.2
by mumbomedia·6 years ago
Very easy to use.
Although supposedly not tested under 5.3.2, it works flawlessly under it.
A must-have for any WordPress developer
Works Great
by Kane G·6 years ago
Helped me sort some issues with the rewrite rules when developing a plugin. Works fine with WordPress 5.2 and does what you need it too.
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.2.1 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
100.0%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.0
- First WP.org plugin repository release
- Further code cleanup
Contributors
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