diff --git a/arches/app/views/plugin.py b/arches/app/views/plugin.py
index 58be2fcd0d8..4a370624af9 100644
--- a/arches/app/views/plugin.py
+++ b/arches/app/views/plugin.py
@@ -28,17 +28,14 @@
 class PluginView(MapBaseManagerView):
     action = None
 
-    def get(self, request, pluginid=None, slug=None):
+    def get(self, request, pluginid=None, slug=None, path=None):
         if slug is not None:
             plugin = models.Plugin.objects.get(slug=slug)
         else:
             plugin = models.Plugin.objects.get(pk=pluginid)
 
         if not request.user.has_perm("view_plugin", plugin):
-            if slug is not None:
-                return redirect("/auth?next=/plugins/{}".format(slug))
-            if slug is not None:
-                return redirect("/auth?next=/plugins/{}".format(pluginid))
+            return redirect("/auth/?next=" + request.path)
 
         if request.GET.get("json"):
             return JSONResponse(plugin)
diff --git a/arches/urls.py b/arches/urls.py
index 9cd86700a7c..c40ec940c16 100644
--- a/arches/urls.py
+++ b/arches/urls.py
@@ -648,10 +648,10 @@
         api.Concepts.as_view(),
         name="concepts",
     ),
-    re_path(
-        r"^plugins/(?P<pluginid>%s)$" % uuid_regex, PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"
-    ),
-    re_path(r"^plugins/(?P<slug>[-\w]+)$", PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"),
+    path("plugins/<uuid:pluginid>", PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"),
+    path("plugins/<uuid:pluginid>/<path:path>", PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"),
+    path("plugins/<slug:slug>", PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"),
+    path("plugins/<slug:slug>/<path:path>", PluginView.as_view(), name="plugins"),
     re_path(
         r"^workflow_history/(?P<workflowid>%s|())$" % uuid_regex,
         WorkflowHistoryView.as_view(),
diff --git a/releases/8.0.0.md b/releases/8.0.0.md
index 0d7fd9cbfb1..ea7ec836576 100644
--- a/releases/8.0.0.md
+++ b/releases/8.0.0.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Arches 8.0.0 Release Notes
 
 - Add session-based REST APIs for login, logout [#11261](https://github.com/archesproject/arches/issues/11261)
 - Improve handling of longer model names [#11317](https://github.com/archesproject/arches/issues/11317)
+- Support more expressive plugin URLs [#11320](https://github.com/archesproject/arches/issues/11320)
 
 ### Dependency changes
 ```
diff --git a/tests/views/plugin_tests.py b/tests/views/plugin_tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9bd3092a7d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/views/plugin_tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+# these tests can be run from the command line via
+# python manage.py test tests.views.plugin_tests --settings="tests.test_settings"
+
+
+class PluginViewTests(TestCase):
+    def test_post_auth_redirect_preserves_full_path(self):
+        response = self.client.get("/plugins/bulk-data-manager/full-path")
+        self.assertRedirects(
+            response, "/auth/?next=/plugins/bulk-data-manager/full-path"
+        )