This plugin removes the stopwords from the URLs for better SEO optimization of your blog. You can set the stopwords in the admin panel.
As of April 2026, Remove Stopwords From Slug is a WordPress seo plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 17 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
For a better SEO, it is said that the URLs must give information about the content of the web page. Because of this most people uses pretty URLs in wordpress with the permalink options. But the post slug in the URL is generated from the title of the post, and some times this slug is too long because we don’t remove the stopwords, common words without an important meaning, that don’t add anything significant to the URL.
This plugin removes the stopwords from the URLs for better SEO optimization of your blog and for making better and smaller URLs. You can set the stopwords through the `Plugins’ menu in WordPress wp-admin.
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| WordPress | 2.0+ requiredTested up to 2.7 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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