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URL Shortify – Simple and Easy URL Shortener

URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, share & cloak any links on or off your WordPress website. Create links using your domain name!

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version2.7.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.0.0 · PHP 5.6
Directory statusactive
Last directory update12 Oct 202621d ago
Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.7 / 5 from 169 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records URL Shortify – Simple and Easy URL Shortener version 2.7.2 as active, updated 21d ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look how you want using your domain name! io, and many other SaaS URL Shortener services.

✨Simple and fast URL Shortener!

URL Shortify allows to reduce long links from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linked In and top sites on the Internet, You can copy the shortened URL and share it on websites, chat and e-mail

Shorten, Share and Track

Your shortened URLs can be used in publications, advertisements, blogs, forums, e-mails, instant messages, and other locations. Track statistics for your business and projects by monitoring the number of hits from your URL with the click counter, you do not have to register.

ly, or any other link shrinking service)! In addition to creating clean links, URL Shortify tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os, and host. URL Shortify is a plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, their links on Twitter to come from their own domain, or generally increase the reach of their website by spreading these links on forums or comments on other blogs.

💝WHY You Need Link Shortener aka URL Shortify

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➡️ Brand – Enhance brand visibility and trust by putting your brand name on every link you share

➡️ Collaborate – Share branded short links across departments, regions, and teams with one cohesive strategy

➡️ Integrate – Incorporate branded links into your existing processes, workflow, and tools with ease

➡️ Track – Understand social media, email marketing, ads, and SEO through detailed click stats

➡️ Optimize – Growth and Target your audience with our link shortener

➡️ Scale – Increase usage with an infrastructure that can grow at the same rate as your business

➡️ Easy – It’s easy and fast, enter the long link to get your shortened link

➡️ Shortened – Use any link, no matter what size, URL Shortify always shortens

➡️ Secure – It’s fast & secure

➡️ Reliable – All links that try to disseminate spam, viruses, and malware are deleted

Features

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⚙️ Easy Configuration

Easily set up your Link Redirects (301, 302, and 307) and all your Link options

👉 Create Short Links

Create short links that your visitors will easily be able to memorize and that you can fit into Tweets, Facebook posts, and more.

👉 Editable Destination URL

Update destination URL of branded links anytime.

🔎 Search Links

Find a specific branded link using an inbuilt search tool.

👉 Fully Customizable

Change settings to make your short links just the way you want them. Make sure your links reflect your brand and stick in the memory!

👉 Hide Affiliate Links

URL Shortify is a great way to hide affiliate links. This is a perfect way to ensure that people don’t bypass your links and cost you money!

👉 Easy To Use

URL Shortify could not be easier to use. This is a quick way to generate links to any page on your site!

👉 301 SEO Redirect

Create branded links that are optimized for search engines

👉 Redirect With 302/307 Headers

Redirect your visitors and keep them updated as to what’s going on. This is a good way to deal with dead links and keep that visitor engagement.

👉 Parameters Forwarding

Automatically forward parameters to the destination URL by appending them to branded links.

👉 Basic Link Analytics. Track Each And Every User Who Click A Link

Full analytics for individual links and link groups, including geo 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇩🇪 and device information, referrers, browser, IP, and more.

👉 Automatically Create Short Links For Posts & Pages

Want to create short links for WordPress Posts & Pages? Don’t worry. We will save you time by creating short links for Posts & Pages automatically.

👉 Organize Short Links In Groups

Group links together for easier management and analytics for a group as well as the individual link.

👉 Add & Move links to group in bulk

Move links to group and add links to group in bulk using Bulk actions.

👉 Dashboard

Get useful KPIs & information right on your dashboard

👉 One Click Share

Copy your shortened URL right from the dashboard and share it instantly.

👉 Link Prefix

Added Link Prefix setting using which you can set the prefix for all links. Once you set the link prefix, prefix will be added to short links

generated after that.

👉 GDPR Privacy

As a data processor, URL Shortify is fully compliant with GDPR

👉 Quick Add Dashboard Widget

Quickly create short links from WordPress Dashboard using URL Shortify Quick Add Widget.

👉 Import links from CSV file.

Exported links from other tools in CSV format? You can directly import all links from CSV file to URL Shortify.

👉 Allow to show Short URL with the Posts, Pages & with the excerpt.

With the use of settings you can display Short URL to above & below to Posts, Pages & Excerpt.

👉 REST API to create short links.

Able to create short links using WordPress REST API from anywhere.

👉 Email Digest

Get daily, weekly and monthly summary of new links and clicks report via email.

One click Import from other WordPress plugins

We have one click import setup for following WordPress Plugin. If you are using any of the following plugin, you can import all your short links in a single click.

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👉 Pretty Links

👉 ThirstyAffiliates Affiliate Link Manager

👉 URL Shortener by MyThemeShop

👉 301 Redirect

👉 Simple 301 Redirects

👉 Redirection

👉 LinkCentral

👉 Short URL

Premium Features

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📊 Full & Real Time Link Analysis

7 days click history is available with URL Shortify free version. Unlock full click history by upgrading to PRO.

👉 Generate Short Links For Posts, Pages & Custom Post Types in bulk

Using Bulk Generate Short Links feature, you can generate Short Links in bulk in a single click.

👉 Cloak Links

Link cloaking is the process of disguising the affiliate link URL provided by an affiliate program to obfuscate the affiliate ID and make the link shorter. This protects your affiliate commissions by making the affiliate ID less visible. At the same time, it makes the link more visually appealing to visitors

👉 Popular Links Dashboard Widget

Show popular links right from the WordPress Dashboard using Popular Links Widget

👉 Enable/ Disable Shortlinks For Custom Post Types

Create short links for all custom post types. You can also enable/ disable the creation of short link for different post types

👉 Meta Refresh

Redirect visitors to a target URL with the Meta Refresh Tag

👉 Customize Slug Character Count

By default URL slug is of 4 characters. With URL Shortify PRO, you can customize it according to your need

👉 Expired Short Links

Decide when a link will be automatically turned off by the system.

👉 Password Protected Links

You can also protect your short links with the password with this PRO ONLY feature

👉 Advanced Link Analysis

Visualize popular click metrics from audiences like top countries, devices, frequent times, and more

👉 QR Codes Of Short Links

Generate QR codes from your branded links

👉 Filter Out Known Robots Clicks

Stop tracking clicks from the known robots and track only real clicks.

👉 Exclude IP Addresses

Stop tracking clicks that come from specific IP addresses. Add those IP addresses into Excluded IP addresses list.

👉 One Click Social Share

Share short links on social media like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Linkedin, Pinterest, Telegram, VKontakte, Email, Hacker News, etc in a single click from the links dashboard

👉 Custom Domains

Access short links from multiple custom domains along with your main site.

👉 Access Control

Manage roles who can create & manage branded short links, groups and manage settings.

👉 Anonymise Clicks Data

Anonymise all click data will anonymise all personal click data like IP address, User-Agents, Referrers, Country, OS, Device, and more without impacting clicks count.

👉 Convert Your Site Into URL Shortener Service

Enable public-facing URL Shortener form using which anyone can generate short URL.

👉 UTM Builder

Add UTM parameters to destination URLs to get branded link metrics in Google Analytics

👉 Bookmarklet

No need to come to URL Shortify dashboard or Chrome or Firefox extension to generate short link. Using Bookmarklet, one can create short link in a single click for any webpage they are visiting.

👉 UTM Presets

Save preset templates for UTM parameters and save time when creating branded links.

👉 Export Short links & click history

Export click history for analytics purpose.

👉 Case Sensitive short URL

Generate short URL case sensitive. That means /abcd & /Abcd have different target URLs.

👉 Dynamic Redirection, aka Traffic Routing

Send visitors to specific landing pages or direct them to your mobile app based on their location, device, operating system or Browser.

👉 Delete historical click data

Delete historical click data older than 30 days, 60 days, 90 days and all clicks at once.

👉 Tracking Pixels – Retargeting

Add retargeting pixels to your links and turn every URL into perfectly targeted ads. Use Google Tag Manager, Facebook pixels to retarget your audience.

👉 Link Rotations

Add multiple target URLs for short link and redirect based on the weights of the URL.

👉 WP All Imports

Now, you can generate short links automatically after importing Posts, Pages, Products, Courses etc… using WP All Import WordPress plugin.

👉 Filter Links

Filter links using Groups, Redirect Types, additional link parameters like Nofollow, Sponsored, Parameter Forwarding & Tracking On/Off, Password Protected links & Expired links.

👉 Tags

Quickly add tags to the links and search links based on the tags. It’s a great way to organize links and find them quickly.

👉 Favorite Links

Mark links as Favorite and access them quickly using Favorite filter.

👉 Broken Link Checker

Quickly find the broken links and restore their functionality, ensuring your website is up and running smoothly.

👉 Auto Link Keywords

Automatically link keywords in the content to short links. This is a great way to increase the traffic to your website and also to increase the sales if you are an affiliate marketer.

👉 Splash Page

Create a splash page for your short links. A splash page is a landing page that is displayed to the visitors before they are redirected to the destination URL. This is a great way to show some information to the visitors before they are redirected to the destination URL.

👉 A/B Testing

Learn how new page components influence users’ behavior by doing A/B Testing

👉 Amazon Affiliates

Adds your Amazon Affiliate-Tag to all Amazon URLs before redirection.

👉 REST API to create short links in bulk.

Able to create short links in bulk using WordPress REST API from anywhere.

👉 Duplicate Short Links

Copy any short link in a single click, one at a time or in bulk. The duplicate keeps every setting of the original — target URL, redirect type, link attributes, expiry, password, custom domain, UTM parameters, tracking pixels, groups and tags — and gets a freshly generated slug, so you can build a new link from an existing one without setting it up again.

👉 Export / Import – Move Your Data Between Sites

Move everything URL Shortify stores — links, groups, tags, custom domains, UTM presets, tracking pixels, click history and your plugin settings — from one site to another in a single file. Preview exactly what will be imported before it runs, choose what happens to entries that already exist, and get an automatic backup taken before anything is replaced. Ideal for staging to production workflows and site migrations.

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Integrations

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➡️ WooCommerce

➡️ Social Linkz

➡️ LifterLMS

➡️ Sassy Social Share

➡️ Easy Digital Downloads

➡️ The Events Calendar

➡️ Events Manager

➡️ WordPress Knowledgebase

➡️ Modern Events Calendar

Do you want us to integrate your WordPress plugin with URL Shortify❓❓❓ Let us know. We would love to integrate your WordPress plugins. We will check the possibility of integration and if it matches, we will integrate your plugins too.

What users are saying about URL Shortify?

👉 Support & Quality Plugin

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The support and help in setting up my plugin were fantastic. Mike walked through the specific use case with me. The plugins easy to use, fast, efficient and does what it says.

Excited to see it evolve too and kick the competitors!

– driverasp

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DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/ FEEDBACK/ FEATURE REQUEST/ BUG REPORT❓

Feel free to create a ticket here. We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.

Spread The Word ❤️

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • affiliate links
  • link branding
  • short links
  • url shortener
  • cloaking
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0.0 · PHP 5.6
Update activity12 Oct 202621d ago

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Version2.7.12.7.2
WordPress compatibility7.1.27.1.3
Version2.7.02.7.1
Version2.6.12.7.0
Version2.6.02.6.1
WordPress compatibility7.17.1.2
Version2.5.22.6.0
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