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Wordpress Plugin: Chinese PinYin Slug

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The Chinese PinYin Slug Wordpress plugin convert Chinese UTF-8 character into English PinYin character from a post slugs to improve  search engine optimization.
For example, when you publish a post with a title like this:
“Chinese PinYin”
Wordpress automatically assigns a long filename to your post, called a post slug:
/%e4%b8%ad%e6%96%87%e6%8b%bc%e9%9f%b3
PinYin Slug plugin convert Chinese character into PinYin character. With Chinese PinYin plugin activated, the slug for our example blog post would look like this:
/zhongwenpinyin
The slug is generated on saving a post (so you get a chance to look at it before publishing, and change it), or on publish. It won’t overwrite an existing slug. You can force a new slug generation by deleting the existing one.

Installation

Download the PinYin Plugin and unzip to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.  Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress. Now, when editing a post, give it a title and press Save and Continue Editing. The PinYin Slug plugin will generate a slug. If you edit it, the plugin will honor your slug and won’t change it.

If you find this plugin useful, please, link to this page: Chinese PinYin Slug Wordpress Plugin.


Comments

18 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin: Chinese PinYin Slug”

  1. waterylife on August 24th, 2007 11:17 pm

    great plugin! It is very useful in my chinese blog. I need not write the post slug in english every time I post an article. Thanks for your awesome work!

  2. Bill on August 25th, 2007 5:18 am

    It is not very useful,in fact,we can write the post slug in English or Chinese PinYin,too.

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  5. Meson on August 25th, 2007 6:28 pm

    Nice work, Wiliam. But I still like writing English slugs.

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    This is my first post
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  9. armando on April 4th, 2008 12:36 pm

    Hi this is great tool!Xie Xie. I uploaded this plugin into my Wordpress but I can´t read my hanzi in my post :-(

    Help please!

  10. nathan.wu on April 17th, 2008 8:34 am

    I have check that php code and write with ruby plugin for myself, but i have found that code can not work with some chinese word like 莓 => mei

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  14. JackyMao on September 27th, 2008 8:25 am

    You did a good job!

    what I am thinking is that maybe someone like to remain the Chinese slug & pinyin & english in the url maybe.

    also we may need the post content to be translate to have both Chinese & Pinyin altogether.

    anyway, this is a v~ery good start!

    A good start is half success.