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Pinyin Slugs

Transforms Simplified or Traditional Chinese character titles into Pinyin to create a permalink friendly slug.

By Pieter Bos·Slugs·Free
5(8 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months ago
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As of April 2026, Pinyin Slugs is a WordPress slugs plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 8 reviews. It has been downloaded 56K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Download volume is stable this week. Top alternative: Cyr-To-Lat.

5/58 reviews
3.0K+active installs
56K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

Chinese characters don’t come out good in permalinks. Without the Pinyin Slugs plugin activated, the example post I made for the screenshot will get a slug like this: %e6%90%9c%e7%b4%a2%e5%bc%95%e6%93%8e%e4%bc%98%e5%8c%96. With the plugin the slug automatically becomes sousuoyinqingyouhua.

Search engines such as Baidu cannot make much of the first slug, but they can handle pinyin perfectly, especially when it is written as one long string without hyphens or underscores.

It is possible to limit the amount of characters in the slug. The default is 100, which should be plenty for most.

The Pinyin Slugs plugin was forked from the Pinyin Permalinks plugin by user xiaole_tao as that project seemed abandoned. There have been many improvements since; read the changelog for details.

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Ratings & Reviews

58 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Perfect!
by Tibow·1 year ago·1 reply

Works simple and fine.

Thank you very much!

實用的中文轉拼音
by 田小蓉·2 years ago·1 reply

這實在是太棒了,再也不用自己修改網址及代稱了

  • This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by 田小蓉.
This plugin is useful! Thank you!
by variousfire·5 years ago·1 reply

This plugin is useful! Thank you!

this is really a must-have plugin for every wordpress site
by Dsjack·7 years ago·1 reply

it’s small but very useful, this is really a must-have plugin for every wordpress site.

easy to use
by yikai·7 years ago·1 reply

Works well,Fantastic!

Download Trends

Today: 20Yesterday: 18This week: 118Period total: 8K

Compatibility

WordPress4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v2.3
69.8%
v2.2
17.8%
v2.1
12.3%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

2.3.7

  • date: January 23, 2026
  • fix PHP 8+ warning by aligning pinyin dictionary global variable name issue 31
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Pieter BosPieter Bos
Plugin Info
Version
2.3.7
Last Updated
Jan 23, 2026
WP Requires
4.6+
Tested Up To
6.9.4
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
3.0K+
Downloads
56K+
Added
Aug 19, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

slugspinyinchinesemandarinpermalinks

Developer

P
Pieter Bos
5 plugins0.1M+ total installs
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