Auto Clean URL for SEO removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs (URLs) in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH.
This plugin removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH.
For all languages it removes HTML entities and anything that is not a letter, digit, space or apostrophe.
Please note that the plugin should not be used together with QTRANSLATE, WPML or POLYLANG. In case you have a multi-language blog, this plugin doesn’t work correctly.
Yoast WordPress SEO has added a similar functionality to the one of this plugin in version 1.4.16 (“Add option to enable slug stop word cleaning”) which is on by default but removed it in version 7.0.0 (Release Date: March 6th, 2018). If you use our plugin together with Yoast WordPress SEO in versions older than 7.0.0, please turn the WordPress SEO functionality off (find it under SEO -> Permalinks).
Yoast WordPress SEO acts on the WordPress filter “name_save_pre” which means that the Slug is modified when saved as draft the first time or when published (only if it hasn’t been saved as draft before). This means that when the slug is first created from the Title of the post the Stop words and HTML entities are not removed at this moment.
Our plugin acts on the WordPress filter “name_save_pre” and on the AJAX action “wp_ajax_sample-permalink” which fires when the Slug is created for the first time. This means that with our plugin the slug is created without stop words in real time. After that you can edit the slug and it will not be modified again by the plugin after it has been edited.
This plugin automatically removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH to enforce your SEO efforts.
The stop words were taken from the great resource of Ranks.nl/StopWords.
This first release is avaliable in English and Spanish. In the languages folder we have included the necessarry files to translate this plugin.
If you would like the plugin in your language and you’re good at translating, please drop us a line at Contact us.
You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: Auto Clean URL SEO en castellano.
For further information please send us an email.
The steps involved in translating a plugin are:
In order to translate a plugin you will need a special software tool like poEdit, which is a cross-platform graphical tool that is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
The naming of your PO and MO files is very important and must match the desired locale. The naming convention is: language_COUNTRY.po
and plugins have an additional naming convention whereby the plugin name is added to the filename: pluginname-fr_FR.po
That is, the plugin name name must be the language code followed by an underscore, followed by a code for the country (in uppercase). If the encoding of the file is not UTF-8 then the encoding must be specified.
For example:
A list of language codes can be found here, and country codes can be found here. A full list of encoding names can also be found at IANA.
auto-clean-url-seo
folder to the /wp-content/plugins/
directory (or to the directory where your WordPress plugins are located)Please note that the plugin should not be used together with QTRANSLATE, WPML or POLYLANG. In case you have a multi-language blog, this plugin doesn’t work correctly.
The main functionality is for Spanish, German, English and French websites, where it removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs (URLs). This means that all words which are not necesary for the search engines are removed, helping your SEO.
For all languages it removes HTML entities and anything that is not a letter, digit, space or apostrophe.
No.
Install and activate. Create a new post and see the magic happen when WordPress makes the slug after writing the title.
You can simply activate, deactivate or delete it in your plugin management section.
In case you have a multi-language blog, this plugin doesn’t work correctly. The plugin should not be used together with QTRANSLATE or WPML. Polylang conflicts with the change of the slug when the post is a draft.
Yoast WordPress SEO has added the functionality of this plugin in version 1.4.16 (“Add option to enable slug stop word cleaning”) which is on by default but removed it in version 7.0.0 (Release Date: March 6th, 2018). If you use our plugin together with Yoast WordPress SEO older than version 7.0.0, please turn the WordPress SEO functionality off (find it under SEO -> Permalinks).
Maybe. We are planning to include one configurable parameter to remove/hide the slug option, so that non administrators can’t change the slug. But we are not sure if this is a feature we or our customers need.
Of course we do. 😉