Cyr to Lat Enhanced automatically converts Cyrillic, European and Georgian characters in post slugs, term slugs and media file names into Latin characters.
\nIt helps maintain clean, readable and consistent URLs on WordPress sites that use non-Latin scripts.<\/p>\n\n
The plugin integrates directly with WordPress core sanitization ( On activation, existing post and term slugs are converted in the background using safe, batch-based processing via WP-Cron. Transliteration is based on an ISO 9-style mapping table with built-in support for:\n- Russian\n- Belarusian\n- Ukrainian\n- Bulgarian\n- Macedonian\n- Georgian<\/p>\n\n Locale-specific adjustments are applied automatically, and the transliteration table can be customized using a public filter.<\/p>\n\n Cyr to Lat Enhanced is intentionally lightweight and focused:\n- no admin interface\n- no settings pages\n- no bidirectional conversion\n- no data collection or tracking<\/p>\n\n The plugin continues the cyr2lat \/ cyr3lat lineage and remains compatible with the original approach introduced by Sergey Biryukov.<\/p>\n\n For advanced transliteration needs such as full content conversion, bidirectional processing, extended language rules and fine-grained control, consider the separate plugin:\nhttps:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/serbian-transliteration\/<\/p>\n\n That plugin is designed for complex multilingual setups and broader language processing beyond slugs and file names.<\/p>\n\n This plugin represents the continued maintenance of the original \"Cyr to Lat Enhanced\" project from the cyr3lat lineage.<\/p>\n\n The project has been revived to ensure long-term stability, modern WordPress compatibility and responsible maintenance, while preserving the original behavior and purpose.<\/p>\n\n Original upstream concept: Rus-To-Lat by Anton Skorobogatov Maintainer: Ivijan Stefan Stipic (INFINITUM FORM)<\/p>\n\n This plugin is licensed under the GPLv2 or later license.<\/p>\n\n All new contributions are released under the same license.<\/p>\n\n\n If you experience unexpected characters in slugs, please open a support topic and include your server OS, PHP version and site locale.<\/p>\n\n\n You can modify or extend the transliteration table by using the Add this code to your theme's By default, the plugin processes slugs in batches to avoid timeouts. Add this code to your theme's Yes. You can adjust the final slug value after transliteration and normalization\nby using the Add this code to your theme's Yes. You can adjust media file names after transliteration and normalization\nby using the Add this code to your theme's Cyr to Lat Enhanced is a continuation of the original cyr2lat \/ cyr3lat lineage.\nIts purpose is strictly limited to transliteration of post slugs, term slugs and media file names.<\/p>\n\n The original cyr2lat<\/a> plugin by Sergey Biryukov introduced a simple and effective way to generate Latin slugs from Cyrillic titles.\nCyr to Lat Enhanced preserves this philosophy while modernizing the codebase, improving reliability and ensuring compatibility with current WordPress versions.<\/p>\n\nsanitize_title<\/code> and sanitize_file_name<\/code>) and performs transliteration at the moment slugs and filenames are generated.
\nIt does not<\/strong> modify post content, titles or front-end text. Its scope is strictly limited to URLs and file names.<\/p>\n\n
\nWordPress core APIs are used to preserve permalink integrity and existing redirects.<\/p>\n\nAdvanced Transliteration<\/h3>\n\n
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Credits<\/h3>\n\n
\ncyr2lat \/ cyr3lat lineage contributors: karevn, Atrax, Sergey Biryukov, webvitaly<\/p>\n\nLegal Notice<\/h3>\n\n
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cyr3lat<\/code> folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory.<\/li>\niconv<\/code> is available on your server, it will be used as a best-effort fallback.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
How can I define my own substitutions?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
ctl_table<\/code> filter.<\/p>\n\nfunctions.php<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\nfunction my_cyr_to_lat_table( $ctl_table ) {\n $ctl_table['\u042a'] = 'U';\n $ctl_table['\u044a'] = 'u';\n return $ctl_table;\n}\nadd_filter( 'ctl_table', 'my_cyr_to_lat_table' );\n<\/code><\/pre><\/dd>\nHow can I adjust the background batch size?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
\nOn slower or low-memory servers, you may want to reduce the batch size.<\/p>\n\nfunctions.php<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\nfunction my_ctl_batch_size( $size, $context ) {\n \/\/ Apply the same batch size for posts and terms.\n return 100;\n}\nadd_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_batch_size', 'my_ctl_batch_size', 10, 2 );\n<\/code><\/pre><\/dd>\nCan I modify the generated slugs after transliteration?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
ctl_enhanced_sanitized_title<\/code> filter.<\/p>\n\nfunctions.php<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\nfunction my_ctl_modify_slug( $slug, $source, $context ) {\n \/\/ Example: append a suffix to all generated slugs.\n return $slug . '-custom';\n}\nadd_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_sanitized_title', 'my_ctl_modify_slug', 10, 3 );\n<\/code><\/pre><\/dd>\nCan I modify media file names after transliteration?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
ctl_enhanced_sanitized_file_name<\/code> filter.<\/p>\n\nfunctions.php<\/code> file:<\/p>\n\nfunction my_ctl_modify_filename( $filename, $source ) {\n \/\/ Example: prepend a prefix to all media file names.\n return 'media-' . $filename;\n}\nadd_filter( 'ctl_enhanced_sanitized_file_name', 'my_ctl_modify_filename', 10, 2 );\n<\/code><\/pre><\/dd>\nWhat is the difference between Cyr to Lat Enhanced, cyr2lat and Transliterator?<\/h3><\/dt>\n