Artberri

For a better SEO, it is said that the URLs must give information about the content of the web page. Because of this most people uses pretty URLs in wordpress with the permalink options. But the post slug in the URL is generated from the title of the post, and some times this slug is too long because we don’t remove the stopwords, common words without an important meaning, that don’t add anything significant to the URL.
This plugin removes the stopwords from the URLs for better SEO optimization of your blog and for making better and smaller URLs. You can set the stopwords through the `Plugins’ menu in WordPress wp-admin.
For example:
<ul>
<li>You have set the next stopwords: a, an, the, i, you, he, she, we, they, of</li>
<li>You write a post called: Review of the Google Chrome Browser</li>
<li>The normal post slug would be: review-of-the-google-chrome-browser</li>
<li>But the optimized slug is: review-google-chrome-browser</li>
</ul>
All configuration is done through wp-admin. No code editing is necessary.

Remove Stopwords From Slug

This plugin removes the stopwords from the URLs for better SEO optimization of your blog. You can set the stopwords in the admin panel.

microkid

This plugin gives you full control over the permalinks for author pages. When using “pretty permalinks”, by default URLs to author pages are structured:
http://www.example.com/author/author-name/
With this plugin you can change the “author” part of these URLs into anything you like, for example:
http://www.example.com/editorial/author-name/ 
http://www.example.com/crew/author-name/ 
http://www.example.com/members/author-name/ 
http://www.example.com/posts-by/author-name/
The plugin will also automatically change links throughout your site that point to author pages. The URLs of author feeds are also changed.
Visit the <a href="http://www.microkid.net/wordpress/author-slug/" title="Wordpress Plugin: Author Slug" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin’s homepage</a> if you have any comments questions.

Custom Author URL

Customize the author slug in the permalink for author pages.

Remove Stopwords From Slug vs Custom Author URL