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Auto Clean URL for SEO
Auto Clean URL for SEO removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs (URLs) in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 2
- Active installs
- 100+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 1 Feb 2026
- Added
- Apr 2014
- Requires WP
- 3.0.1
- Tested up to
- WP 4.9.31
- Downloads
- 12,746
Our analysis
AI-assistedAuto Clean URL for SEO is a WordPress plugin designed to remove stop words from slugs in English, Spanish, German, and French. It operates in real time, ensuring that slugs are created without stop words as posts are published or saved for the first time.
This plugin is intended for users looking to enhance their SEO efforts by cleaning up their URLs. However, it is not compatible with certain multilingual plugins like QTRANSLATE, WPML, or POLYLANG, which may limit its use for multi-language blogs.
Best for: This plugin is suitable for WordPress users focused on SEO who publish content in English, Spanish, German, or French.
What it does well
- ✓Removes stop words from slugs in multiple languages
- ✓Real-time slug modification upon creation
- ✓Compatible with WordPress versions up to 4.9.31
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Not compatible with QTRANSLATE, WPML, or POLYLANG
- •Limited information on additional features or support
Verdict
Auto Clean URL for SEO provides a straightforward solution for cleaning slugs, but its compatibility limitations may restrict its use for some multilingual sites.
From the developer
apasionados's own description of Auto Clean URL for SEO, lightly tidied.
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.
What can I do with this plugin?
This plugin automatically removes STOP WORDS from the WordPress Slugs in ENGLISH, SPANISH, GERMAN and FRENCH to enforce your SEO efforts.
Where did you get the STOP WORD list from?
The stop words were taken from the great resource of Ranks.nl/StopWords.
Auto Clean URL for SEO Plugin in your Language!
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.
- Translation to Serbo-Croatian language sr_RS by Borisa Djuraskovic.
Further Reading
You can access the description of the plugin in Spanish at: Auto Clean URL SEO en castellano.
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