Rewrite Rules Inspector
A simple admin tool for inspecting rewrite rules.
5(26 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Rewrite Rules Inspector is a WordPress tools plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 26 reviews. It has been downloaded 457K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.4+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Hostinger Tools.
5/526 reviews
10K+active installs
457K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
A simple WordPress admin tool for inspecting rewrite rules. View a listing of all your rewrite rules, see which rewrite rules match a given URL (and the priorities they match in), or filter by different sources of rewrite rules. Perform a soft flush of your rewrite rules to regenerate them.
Developed on GitHub — pull requests are always welcome. Please leave feedback, questions, bug reports, and feature requests in the GitHub issues.
Where to find it
Go to Tools → Rewrite Rules in the WordPress admin.
URL Tester
Quickly test any URL (or path) against your site’s rewrite rules:
- See whether the URL would be a 404 or which rule would match first (the one WordPress uses).
- View the list of all matching rules, in match priority order.
- Inspect the query variables extracted from the match…
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Ratings & Reviews
526 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Genius tool for debugging redirect errors
by Roice·10 months ago
Sometimes you get into a trap that logically leads nowhere and this plugin can help you find a way out of this vicious circle. Thanks.
Time Saver
by lflier·4 years ago
Whenever you change a custom post type, you must flush the rewrite rules. This plugin does in in a single click. Additionally it enables you to check your rewrite rules against your URLs to make sure everything is working as it should. This is one of my essential plugins.
Thank you!!
by shamank·5 years ago
Thank you man, you saved me a lot of time!!
Does the job with rewrite rules!
by johnnyhuy·7 years ago
Simple and straight forward to solve issues with rewrite rules.
Great tool!
by Steven·8 years ago
Love the plugin but noticed today, whilst debugging a new plugin I’m writting, that the plugin still uses the depreciated functions: screen_icon() and get_screen_icon().
Both have gone depreciated since 3.8.0 so I reckon a minor update to avoid these errors from popping up in the debug mode is worth the effort 🙂
The fix – with backwards compatibility (do we need that?) – would be to change:
<?php screen_icon( 'tools' ); ?>
into:
<?php if ( function_exists('screen_icon') ) screen_icon( 'tools' ); ?>
___
(!) Notice: screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available.
(!) Notice: get_screen_icon is deprecated since version 3.8.0 with no alternative available.
Location ..\rewrite-rules-inspector.php:208
Download Trends
Today: 43Yesterday: 129This week: 985Period total: 74K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.4+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
36.7%
v1.4
20.6%
v1.3
18.7%
v1.2
15.5%
v1.5
8.6%
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Changelog
See the change log.
Contributors
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