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Remove CPT base
A tiny surgical strike against cluttered custom post type URLs.
Declining
61/100
This utility removes slugs and manages redirects for custom post types.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
5.0★
33 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-23%
Declining
44 → 34 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining · -23% in the last year
44/day a year ago→34/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRemove CPT Base is praised for reliably stripping custom post type slugs, often replacing complex code, while integrating smoothly with Polylang, though no criticisms appear in the reviews.
What people like
- +Provides a solution for Polylang integration by requiring the "front page URL contains language code" setting to avoid 404s
- +Eliminates the need for custom PHP snippets to remove CPT base slugs
- +Lightweight plugin that handles CPT base removal reliably
- +Creates redirects instead of deleting CPT base, preserving URLs
- +Successfully removes CPT base for specific hierarchical post types without affecting other CPTs or pages
- +Removes the "services" slug from URLs
- +Easy to use and saves custom code
Common complaints
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.97★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- 97%5★ concentration — near-perfect across only 33 reviews — not yet a proven track record
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 33 total
Latest reviews · 33 analyzed
- 2025-10-22★★★★★Works well!Konstantin Agafonov
- 2025-06-21★★★★★Very helpfullclassikd
- 2024-05-16★★★★★Works like a charmGregoire Noyelle
- 2024-02-23★★★★★Lifesaver!Christian van ‘t Hof
- 2024-01-06★★★★★works perfectigitt23
- 2023-12-06★★★★★Works GreatChris Cook
- 2023-09-19★★★★★Excellent light weight pluginnathanbrnrd
- 2023-09-09★★★★★Useless pluginwebsty
- 2023-08-08★★★★★Excellent – simple and effectiveenterprising
- 2023-02-02★★★★★so beautiful. thank you so muchcovirtek
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
36
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
29
Prior 7-day baseline
27
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
58
Mean release-day peak (30d)
36
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+24.1%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.70
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
97%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.97 → 4.97★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered