Rewrite Rules Inspector
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A simple admin tool for inspecting rewrite rules.
Rating
5/5
Version
1.5.1
Active installations
10K
Last updated
Oct 14, 2025
A simple WordPress admin tool for inspecting rewrite rules. View a listing of all your rewrite rules, see which rewrite rules match a given URL (and the priorities they match in), or filter by different sources of rewrite rules. Perform a soft flush of your rewrite rules to regenerate them.
Developed on GitHub — pull requests are always welcome. Please leave feedback, questions, bug reports, and feature requests in the GitHub issues.
Where to find it
Go to Tools → Rewrite Rules in the WordPress admin.
URL Tester
Quickly test any URL (or path) against your site’s rewrite rules:
- See whether the URL would be a 404 or which rule would match first (the one WordPress uses).
- View the list of all matching rules, in match priority order.
- Inspect the query variables extracted from the match and the resulting final query WordPress would run.
Works with full URLs or paths and automatically handles sites installed in a subdirectory.
Permastructs
Browse a table of all permastructs that WordPress is aware of, including:
- Name — the permastruct key (e.g. for posts, taxonomies, authors).
- Structure — the permalink structure pattern used to generate rules.
- Description — a human-friendly summary of what the permastruct controls.
This plugin is available for download for your site.
