As of April 2026, Transliterado is a WordPress i18n plugin with 300 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 14K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 15 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Loco Translate.
This plugin gives better transliteration of non-ASCII characters in slugs. Currently covers Esperanto, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Russian and Bulgarian. It can also handle dashes.
When WordPress creates slugs for the titles of posts and pages, and for tags and categories, it makes them all-ASCII, which among other things means removing diacritics (e.g. “é” becomes “e”, “ö” becomes “o”, “ĉ” becomes “c”, etc.). For some languages the default filtering is OK, but for others it gives very bad results. The results for languages that don’t even use a Latin script are especially unsatisfactory. The plugin Transliterado provides better transliteration systems for some languages. You can choose which of…
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 2.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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