Hikari Category Permalink for WordPress Plugin Directory
Hikari Category Permalink is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 5 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Hikari Category Permalink is a WordPress Plugin Directory app. With a rating of 5.0★ from 5 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Hikari Category Permalink is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 5 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
Cons
- −Limited review base (5) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Hikari Category Permalink works
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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Frequently asked questions
What is Hikari Category Permalink?
Hikari Category Permalink is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 5 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space.