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Hikari Category Permalink
For each post, author can choose which category is used in permalink.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 5
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 17 Oct 2010
- Added
- Jun 2010
- Requires WP
- 3.0
- Tested up to
- WP 3.0.5
- Downloads
- 16,288
Our analysis
AI-assistedHikari Category Permalink is a WordPress plugin that allows you to customise the category used in post permalinks. By default, WordPress uses the category with the lowest ID, which may not be optimal for SEO. This plugin enables you to select any of your post's categories for the permalink, providing greater flexibility.
The plugin is particularly useful for authors who want to enhance their site's SEO by controlling permalink structures. It is a straightforward tool that does not alter rewrite rules, ensuring a simpler and more stable experience compared to its predecessor, sCategory Permalink.
Best for: This plugin suits authors looking to optimise their permalink structures for SEO.
What it does well
- ✓Allows selection of category for each post's permalink
- ✓Improves SEO flexibility for permalinks
- ✓No rewrite rules tweaks for simplicity
- ✓Compatible with sCategory Permalink
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in October 2010, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions
- •Limited information on support and updates
Verdict
Hikari Category Permalink offers useful functionality for customising permalinks, but its age may limit compatibility with current WordPress versions.
From the developer
The author's own description of Hikari Category Permalink, lightly tidied.
WordPress 3.0 comes with a new filter that lets us customize what is used for each permalink structure tag, other than WordPress default.
One of these permalink structure tags is %category%. By default, WordPress always use the category with lowest ID, making %category% impractical for SEO optimization.
Hikari Category Permalink allows post authors to choose among each post’s categories, which of them is used in that post permalink, giving much more flexibility and power to permalinks.
This plugin is a fork of Dmytro’s sCategory Permalink. It has all original features and is compatible with original options, while being more stable and simple, and also fixes 2 recurring bugs.
Features
- You can choose for each post separately, which category is used in its
%category%permalink. - Posts without a category set to be used in permalink behave as WordPress default, (which currently is) the one with lowest ID is used
- Posts with a category set have it used
- In post edit page, where you set the post’s categories, there’s a new feature allowing you to choose which category will be used in permalink
- No rewrite rules tweaks are done, making the plugin much simpler and bug free
- If you already used sCategory Permalink, you can safely deactivate it and replace by Hikari Category Permalink, all your category permalinks will be used
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