86
Rewrite Rules Inspector
A tiny debugging hero for every developer's toolkit.
HealthyGrowing
86/100
This essential utility helps developers quickly diagnose and fix broken permalink structures.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
5.0★
26 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+17%
Growing
45 → 52 installs/day
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
Growing · +17% in the last year
45/day a year ago→52/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayRewrite Rules Inspector is widely praised as a simple, essential tool that quickly flushes rewrite rules and helps diagnose permalink issues, though users only note minor feature requests.
What people like
- +Flushes rewrite rules with a single click
- +Helps diagnose and understand broken rewrite rules×3
- +Considered essential for development, staging, and debugging environments×2
- +Simple and straightforward to use×2
- +Saves time when working with custom post types and permalinks×2
- +Provides a downloadable text file of rewrite rules
Common complaints
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.96★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-06-092025-12-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 26 total
Latest reviews · 26 analyzed
- 2025-05-28★★★★★Genius tool for debugging redirect errorsRoice
- 2021-11-07★★★★★Time Saverlflier
- 2021-03-16★★★★★Thank you!!shamank
- 2018-11-27★★★★★Does the job with rewrite rules!johnnyhuy
- 2018-03-25★★★★★Great tool!Steven
- 2017-11-07★★★★★The best plugin for this tasks!andreykashops
- 2017-09-16★★★★★This is essential!folbert
- 2017-07-22★★★★★Does what it says on the boxJason1-shot
- 2017-06-20★★★★★Nice one!Bernhard Gronau
- 2017-02-23★★★★★A must have for permalinks workunapersona
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.
51
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
51
Prior 7-day baseline
84
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
239
Mean release-day peak (30d)
209
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
0.0%
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.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.46
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.96 → 4.96★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered