WordPress
Bulgarian Cyrillic slugs and upload file names in Latin, by the official Streamlined System, plus a batch tool that converts existing slugs with a dry run and 301 redirects.
Coming soon
Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.
The gap
WordPress keeps Cyrillic slugs as long percent-encoded addresses that are hard to read, share and type, and Cyrillic file names cause trouble in links, backups and some hosts. Generic transliteration plugins use Russian rules, which are wrong for Bulgarian.
What it is
Bukvar applies the Bulgarian Streamlined System to every new slug and upload, and converts the slugs a site already has with a dry run, batch processing and 301 redirects from the old addresses.
How you use it
Correct Bulgarian transliteration, a safe way to convert an existing site, and redirects that use WordPress's own mechanism where it exists.
For Bulgarian WordPress sites that want readable Latin addresses written by the official rules, without losing the traffic of the old Cyrillic ones.
Use it when
Built for
Bulgarian has its own official transliteration: щ is sht, ъ is a and the final "ия" is ia. Bukvar implements that table and those rules, keeps Bulgaria for the state name, and follows the capitals of each word, so ЩАСТИЕ becomes SHTASTIE and Щастие becomes Shtastie.
From activation on, every slug WordPress saves for a post, page, custom post type, term or attachment is written in Latin, and so is every uploaded file name. Lookups of existing Cyrillic slugs are left alone, so pages you have not converted yet keep working.
The conversion tool counts what is left, lists every planned change in a dry run and then converts in batches. Posts get the _wp_old_slug record that WordPress itself reads to redirect; pages, hierarchical post types and terms are redirected by Bukvar with a 301.
Two optional tables cover words in those languages. A word with ы, э or ё is read as Russian, a word with і, ї, є or ґ as Ukrainian by the national system of 2010, including its word-initial forms and the zgh rule. Either alphabet can also be the default.
This file could not be loaded.
This file could not be loaded.
This file could not be loaded.
This file could not be loaded.
This file could not be loaded.
1 of 5
| Platform or runtime | Supported versions | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | 6.5 or newer | 7.1.3 |
| PHP | 8.1 or newer | 8.4 |
It is finished and tested. It is not on sale yet; this page will say where to get it when it is.
Coming soon
Not published on its store yet, so there is no buy or download link. PN Scripts does not take payment for it here.
