Remove Special Characters From Permalinks
Removes special characters from permalinks
5(3 reviews)
·80 active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, Remove Special Characters From Permalinks is a WordPress remove plugin with 80 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP 5.6.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2018. Top alternative: Hide/Remove Metadata.
5/53 reviews
80active installs
11K+total downloads
8 yearssince 2018
Overview
If you are using pretty permalinks, you may have noticed WordPress sanitizes it removing accents and some special characters.
However some of these characters are not sanitized by default, meaning they can be added to some of your post URLs, like a trademark symbol(®), a copyright symbol(©) or even a UTF-8 symbol like ⛓.
Although it may not hurt you at first, it may let users confused and it can cause some problems when interacting with some third party API that is not prepared to read such characters.
This plugin Removes special characters from permalinks when the post is created or updated.
How to use it?
All you have to do is saving/updating your post and you will notice special characters will be swiped out from the permalink.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6.0+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1.0 – 11/09/2025
- Tested up to: 6.8.
Contributors
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