Title: Stopwords functionality not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Stopwords functionality not working

 *  [foolishbrilliance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/foolishbrilliance/)
 * (@foolishbrilliance)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stopwords-functionality-not-working/)
 * Per [http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#stopwords](http://yoast.com/articles/wordpress-seo/#stopwords):
   “
   As of version 1.1.6, my WordPress SEO plugin will automatically remove stop words
   from your slugs once you save a post, so you won’t get those ugly long URL’s 
   when you do a sentence style post title.”
 * The original thread with this issue seemed to have been closed (marked as resolved)
   due to the release of WordPress SEO 1.1.7:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-stopwords-functionality-not-working?replies=12#post-4111828](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-stopwords-functionality-not-working?replies=12#post-4111828)
 * However, I am still running into this issue with the following software versions:
   
   WordPress 3.5.1 WordPress SEO 1.4.7
 * Example title: AWS VPN Cisco ASA and SLA Monitor
    Example slug: aws-vpn-cisco-
   asa-and-sla-monitor Example URL: [http://virtuallyhyper.com/2013/04/aws-vpn-cisco-asa-and-sla-monitor/](http://virtuallyhyper.com/2013/04/aws-vpn-cisco-asa-and-sla-monitor/)
 * Thanks for the plugin! Any thoughts on this? It seems like many others in the
   original thread were having the issue as well, even after the update.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [Franklind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/per-ake-framklind/)
 * (@per-ake-framklind)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stopwords-functionality-not-working/#post-3701545)
 * Is the solution to install SEO Slugs?
    This can’t be so hard, how come this feature
   is broken?

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 * Last reply from: [Franklind](https://wordpress.org/support/users/per-ake-framklind/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stopwords-functionality-not-working/#post-3701545)
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