About this plugin
When a post title is written in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian or any other non-Latin script, WordPress falls back to percent-encoded slugs such as %e6%96%af%e5%b7%b4.... Those URLs are unreadable, hard to share, and carry no SEO value.
iLang Readable Slugs fixes that.
ai, the AI-native protocol this plugin family is named after):
[READ:@SRC|path=title]=>[XLAT|lng=en]=>[SHRT|len=short]=>[OUT]
Read the title, translate the meaning, condense it, ship it. That pipeline is the whole plugin. When you save a post, the title is sent to an AI model that returns a concise 3-6 word English slug capturing the meaning of the title, the way a human editor would write it.
Place names, brand names and intent are all translated correctly, unlike romanization plugins that transliterate character by character.
Example results:
- A Chinese review of a San Jose VPS becomes sparta-vps-san-jose-network-speed-test
- A Chinese guide to appealing a banned ChatGPT account becomes chatgpt-account-ban-appeal-guide
Features
- Falls back to the WordPress default silently if generation fails, so publishing is never blocked
- Skips titles already in English, slugs you set by hand, and already-published posts
- Does not run on autosave, does not run for low-privilege users, and enforces an hourly site-wide cap
- Optional site context field teaches the model your niche and brand names
- Works with any OpenAI-compatible chat completion endpoint
External service
This plugin requires an API key for an OpenAI-compatible AI service. cn), and you may point it at any other compatible provider in the settings.
What is sent, and when: the post title, plus the optional “Site context” text you enter in the settings (if you fill it in), are transmitted. This happens when you save a post — published, scheduled, draft, pending or private — whose title contains non-ASCII characters and has no usable slug yet. Post body content and user data are never sent.
Nothing is transmitted until you enter your own API key.
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The author’s SiliconFlow referral link is shown on the settings screen. Signing up through it grants bonus credits to both the new user and the author. Using it is entirely optional: an API key from any compatible provider works the same way.