<p>The default WordPress “shortlink” URLs look like this: <code>http://www.example.com/blog/?p=123</code>, where “<code>123</code>” is actually a 7+ digit decimal number. This plugin shrinks your shortlinks by encoding that number into only 4 characters, and using the abbreviated URL prefix of your choice.</p>
<p>On my site, the default shortlinks are 35 bytes long, even though I have a very short domain name. This plugin shrinks them to 21 total bytes, which is comparable to most public URL-shortener services, and better than many.</p>
<p>E.g., this: <code>http://www.jwz.org/blog/?p=13240780</code><br />
becomes: <code>http://jwz.org/b/ygnM</code></p>
<p>This doesn’t affect your (long) permalinks: those can still be in whatever format you like.</p>


Base64 Shortlinks

This plugin makes your shortlinks shorter!

Steve Burge

Jaed Mosharraf

PublishPress

pluginbazar

Masum Billah

Adesina Adedeji

Sakib Hossain

<p>PublishPress Shortlinks is the best link manager available for WordPress. With PublishPress Shortlinks, you can take any link on your website and perform useful actions like these:</p>
<ul>
<li>Track who clicks on your links with detailed analytics.</li>
<li>Safely hare posts in any status, even unpublished posts in Draft or Pending Review.</li>
<li>Make your URLs short and memorable.</li>
<li>Control who can visit your links with passwords, expiry dates, and access control.</li>
<li>Generate QR codes to easily share your links.</li>
</ul>
<h3>PublishPress Shortlinks Pro</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Upgrade to Shortlinks Pro</strong><br />
  This plugin is the free version of the Shortlinks Pro plugin. The Pro version of PublishPress Revisions allows you to control access to editing shortlinks and viewing the click analytics. You can also show a custom message when someone is blocked from accessing a link. And you can import and export links. <a href="https://publishpress.com/shortlinks" title="Shorelines Pro" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to purchase the best WordPress link manager now!</a></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Key Link Management Features in PublishPress Shortlinks</h3>
<p>✅ Automatically create shortlinks for your posts<br />
✅ Use your own website domain for shortlinks<br />
✅ Customize the slug for each shortlink<br />
✅ Share shortlinks for posts in any status<br />
✅ Add password protection to your shortlinks<br />
✅ Automatically expire your shortlinks on a specific date<br />
✅ Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects<br />
✅ Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics<br />
✅ Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing<br />
✅ Automatically add link to keywords<br />
✅ Cloak your affiliate links</p>
<h3>Automatically create shortlinks for your posts</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically generate links for all your posts and pages. This makes it really easy to have shareable links for content. These URLs are available from the Posts screen and the Post Edit screen.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/introduction-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">Get started with PublishPress Shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Use your own website domain for shortlinks</h3>
<p>There’s no need to use an external service to build and track your links. With PublishPress Shortlinks, all your custom URLs use your own domain name. To avoid conflicts with any regular URLs on your site, there’s also a folder which is set to “go” by default. This means that your custom URLs will look like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks. Every post has its own URL. By default, the final part of the URL will be a unique combination of 5 characters, so your shortlink will look like this: https://example.com/go/8vi3n. However, you can customize the slug so it looks like this: https://example.com/go/shortlinks.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/how-to-customize-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on customizing shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Share shortlinks for posts in any status</h3>
<p>When you’re writing a draft post, do you sometimes need to share it with someone who doesn’t have access to your site? PublishPress Shortlinks is the answer. PublishPress Shortlinks allows you to share posts before you make them public. If you’ve written a draft of a post, you can share a preview with other people. You can protect these links by combining this with other features, including password protection and automatic expiry of links. This feature is similar to the Public Post Preview plugin, but with more features and customizable features.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/posts-status-visibility/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on shortlinks for unpublished posts</a>.</p>
<h3>Add password protection to your shortlinks</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Security” tab. You’ll be able to create a password for your sharable links. Nobody will be able to access the post via your shortlink unless they know the password.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on passwords for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Automatically expire your shortlinks on a specific date</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Security” tab. You’ll be able to choose an expiration date for your shortlink. Anyone trying to visit your link after the expiration date will see the message, “This link is expired.”</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/protect-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on expiry dates for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Choose from 301, 302, and 307 redirects</h3>
<p>Edit a shortlink and go to the “Redirection” tab. You can choose what kind of redirect is used for each link. 301 (Permanent) redirects are used to tell search engines that a requested URL has been permanently moved to another URL. If you’re confident that your target URL will never change, then use this redirect type. 302 and 307 (Temporary) redirects tell search engines that the requested URL has been moved temporarily, but will be back eventually.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/redirect-options-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on redirects for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Track who is clicking your shortlinks with analytics</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks has a Logs feature that records everyone who clicks your links. These logs are then turned into analytics charts so you can see how popular each shortlink is.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/analytics-and-logs-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on logs for shortlinks</a>.</p>
<h3>Generate a QR code for each shortlink to allow easy sharing</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks will automatically create a QR code for each link. This makes it easy to download and share the QR code so people can visit your URL. This is great for advertisements, brochures, PDFs, restaurant menus, or anywhere you want to use a QR code.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/qr-codes-for-shortlinks/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on QR codes for shortlinks</a></p>
<h3>Automatically add links to keywords</h3>
<p>You can automatically add links to keywords in your post. For example, every time “WordPress” appears in your posts, you can link it to WordPress.org.</p>
<p><a href="https://publishpress.com/knowledge-base/automatically-add-links-to-keywords/" rel="nofollow ugc">More on adding links to keywords</a></p>
<h3>Cloak affiliate links</h3>
<p>PublishPress Shortlinks is ideal for websites that have affiliate links in posts. You can manage, clean up, brand, and track your links. It’s a great tool for cloaking affiliate links. PublishPress Shortlinks is a great tool for marketers plugin for people who want to clean up their affiliate links.</p>
<h3>Create Shortlinks via Keyboard Shortcuts</h3>
<p>Click <code>Ctrl/Cmd + /</code> anywhere in the WordPress admin area to instantly create shortlinks.</p>
<h3>Join PublishPress and get the Pro plugins</h3>
<p>The Pro versions of the PublishPress plugins are well worth your investment. The Pro versions have extra features and faster support. <a href="https://publishpress.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Click here to join PublishPress</a>.</p>
<p>Join PublishPress and you’ll get access to these Pro plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/authors" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Authors Pro</a> allows you to add multiple authors and guest authors to WordPress posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/blocks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Blocks Pro</a> has everything you need to build professional websites with the WordPress block editor.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/capabilities" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Capabilities Pro</a> is the plugin to manage your WordPress user roles, permissions, and capabilities.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/checklists" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Checklists Pro</a> enables you to define tasks that must be completed before content is published.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/future" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Future Pro</a>  is the plugin for scheduling changes to your posts.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/permissions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Permissions Pro</a>  is the plugin for restricted content and advanced WordPress permissions.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/publishpress" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Planner Pro</a> is the plugin for managing and scheduling WordPress content.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/revisions" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Revisions Pro</a> allows you to update your published pages with teamwork and precision.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/series" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Series Pro</a> enables you to group content together into a series.</li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/shortlinks" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Shortlinks Pro</a> allows you to create custom URLs for your posts and external links. </li>
<li><a href="https://publishpress.com/statuses" rel="nofollow ugc">PublishPress Statuses Pro</a> enables you to create additional publishing steps for your posts.</li>
</ul>
<p>Together, these plugins are a suite of powerful publishing tools for WordPress. If you need to create a professional workflow in WordPress, with moderation, revisions, permissions and more, then you should try PublishPress.</p>
<h3>Bug Reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for PublishPress Shortlinks are welcomed in our <a href="https://github.com/publishpress/publishpress-shortlinks" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that aren’t properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>


PublishPress Shortlinks – The Link Manager for WordPress

The best link manager for WordPress. Your links are brandable, trackable, and can have custom view permissions.

Base64 Shortlinks vs PublishPress Shortlinks – The Link Manager for WordPress