WP Category Permalink
Allows manual selection of a 'main' category for each post for nicer permalinks and better SEO.
4.8(32 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, WP Category Permalink is a WordPress category plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 32 reviews. It has been downloaded 101K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP 5.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 16% this week. Top alternative: Pages with category and tag.
4.8/532 reviews
2.0K+active installs
101K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
This plugin allows you to select a main category (or taxonomy) for your posts for nicer permalinks and SEO.
What it does?
A custom structure such as /%category%/%postname%/ should be usually chosen for your permalinks. By default, this %category% is selected automatically (using the lowest ID) in the case your post is assigned to more than one category. This plugin will let you pick the category of your choice from the ‘Post Edit’ page. The chosen category is shown in bold on the ‘Posts List’ page and the ‘Post Edit’ page.
Posts List
Below the title, you will see the permalink currently set-up for this entry. If a heart is present, it means that the category (or taxonomy) has been picked up.
Breadcrumbs
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Not working at the Moment
by titusraj·6 years ago
Hi,
I have been using this plugin for some years. It does not seem to be working with the current version of wordpress. Had a host of errors from Google ads and realised all the loved permalinks were no longer functioning an creating a redirect error.
It works fine when Classic Editor Plugin is activated. Does not work when classic editor plugin is deactivated and guttenberg is activated.
Hope is gets fixed soon.
Thanks
- This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by titusraj.
It’s great and it works with 5.2.2
by r0by·6 years ago
Works flawlessly with 5.2.2. Thank you!
Perfect replacement for WP gallery custom links
·7 years ago
This does everything I used the old WP Custom Gallery links plugin for, with the added bonus that it works with Gutenberg! The creator is also super helpful, I had an issue with using the plugin due to an old version of php on my server, and he was able to debug and fix the problem straight away.Very impressed, both with the plugin and also customer service.
Great plugin
by gezginorman·7 years ago
If you have posts that belong more than one category, you’ll love this plugin.
Works great
by bramchi·7 years ago
Works great
Download Trends
Today: 5Yesterday: 6This week: 31Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | 5.3+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.4
89.5%
Other
10.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
3.4.0
- Compatibility with PHP 7.2 by removing create_function calls. Thanks to David (https://github.com/jordymeow/wp-category-permalink/pull/3#issuecomment-443597831).
Contributors
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