This plugin help you shorten subcategory's link if it's too long or deep levels, help you boosting your SEO
As of April 2026, Shorten Sub-category's Link is a WordPress nice slug plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Vietnamese Clean URL.
Your website sometime has many category and subcategory, it’s okey if Category has 2 sub category, but it’s will be bad if category has more than 3 children, this simple plugin will help you shorten all of them to a nicer permalink.
A permalink with a depth of more than 3 levels doesn’t look too user friendly. Additionally, Google may not worry much about URL depths, though it may impact searches on other engines like Bing or Yahoo. This plugin help you shortening deep subcategory’s link !
Eg:
//domain.com/category-parent/subcategory/subofsubcategory/last-subcategory.html
Now it’s will be:
//domain.com/nameof-the-category.html
You can choose the end of the Url, can be html or htm or something like “.jam” is okey !
This plugin work with Yoa…
| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 4.8.28 |
| PHP | false+ required |
First version release !
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