The Chinese PinYin Slug Wordpress plugin convert Chinese UTF-8 character into English PinYin character from a post slugs to improve SEO.
As of April 2026, Pinyin Slug is a WordPress post plugin with 70 active installations and a 3/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Top alternative: Header and Footer Scripts.
The Chinese PinYin Slug WordPress plugin convert Chinese UTF-8 character into English PinYin character from a post slugs to improve search engine optimization.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this: “Chinese PinYin”
WordPress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug: /%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e6%8b%bc%e9%9f%b3
PinYin Slug plugin convert Chinese character into PinYin character. With Chinese PinYin plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this: /zhongwenpinyin
The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won’t overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.1+ required |
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