Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)

Slug Automator automatically generates slugs from WordPress post titles using the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2026/03/24/introducing-the-ai-client-in-wordpress-7-0/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI Client</a> introduced in WordPress 7.0.
Writing post titles in Japanese or any other non-English language? Slug Automator uses AI to translate them into clean, English URL-friendly slugs — no manual input required. Automatic generation runs on publish only when the slug field is empty, so any slug you set yourself is never overwritten. You can also generate or regenerate a slug on demand with the “Generate Slug” button in the block editor.
Because it relies on the WordPress AI Client, it works with any AI provider configured on your site (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and more).
Github: <a href="https://github.com/torounit/slug-automator" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/torounit/slug-automator</a>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatically generates slugs from post titles via AI</li>
<li>Provider-agnostic — uses whichever AI provider is configured in WordPress</li>
<li>Works directly in the block editor</li>
</ul>

Slug Automator

Automatically generates URL-friendly slugs from post titles using the WordPress AI Client.

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NOTE: recent WordPress versions already properly transliterate umlauts if the 
site language is German. In that case, German Slugs is no longer needed.
While creating a post or page, WordPress automatically suggests a permalink. If 
your permalink structure contains the %postname% tag, then the title of your 
post or page will be used, simplified by conversion to lowercase, replacing 
spaces with hyphens, removing certain punctuation characters and removing 
diacritics from latin letters.
Thus, by default, ä is replaced with a, ö with o, ü with u and ß with s (similar 
for capital letters). For German, the conventional transliteration is ä to ae, ö 
to oe, ü to ue and ß to ss (sometimes sz in Austria, this is not yet supported). 
This plugin makes your WordPress apply the conventional transliteration.
I wrote this plugin because manually correcting WordPress’s suggestions is a 
considerable hassle, especially if you decide to change the title afterwards.
<h3>Support</h3>
If you have questions or suggestions, contact me at poststelle ät texttheater döt 
net.

German Slugs

German Slugs properly transliterates umlauts and the letter ß appearing in titles for slugs (i.e. for pretty permalinks).

Slug Automator vs German Slugs