Robert Wetzlmayr

<p>Smartify your post and page slugs and let them convey the very essence of your content’s titles by removing too short or insignificant stopwords – automatically, that is. <strong>Smart Slug</strong> comes preloaded with an easily expandable and configurable set of German, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese and English stopwords.</p>
<p>Please visit my <a href="http://talkpress.de/blip/wet-smartslug-wordpress-plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Smart WordPress Slug Plugin</a> article to review additional screenshots, grasp implementation details and contribute to a related discussion on how search engines evaluate words in URL fragments.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
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<li>Russian translation by <a href="http://www.luxpar.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Natalya Pastukhova</a></li>
<li>Ukrainian translation by <a href="http://www.pastukhova-floeder.de/" rel="nofollow ugc">Natalya Pastukhova</a></li>
<li>Dutch translation by <a href="http://www.patriciaritsemavaneck.name/" rel="nofollow ugc">Patricia Ritsema van Eck</a></li>
<li>Portuguese translation by <a href="http://www.centralwordpress.com.br/" rel="nofollow ugc">Raoni Del Pérsio</a></li>
<li>Hindi translation by <a href="http://outshinesolutions.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Outshine Solutions</a></li>
<li>Indonesian translation by <a href="http://www.syamsulalam.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">Syamsul Alam</a></li>
<li>Serbian translation by <a href="http://firstsiteguide.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Ogi Djuraskovic</a></li>
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<h4>Limitations</h4>
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<li>Smart Slug overrides all manual slug modifications which would violate its rule set, even if you are making them deliberately.</li>
<li>WordPress appends a unique number to ambigous slugs (e.g. hello-word, hello-world-2 et cetera). Smart Slug may not notice this behaviour when an article is saved for the first time. If this happens you may simply re-save the post to attach a smart slug.</li>
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Smart Slug

Smartify your post and page slugs by removing too short or insignificant stopwords automatically.

texttheater

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


German Slugs

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

Smart Slug vs German Slugs