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<p><strong>FastLinkIt</strong> integrates your WordPress site with the <a href="https://flnk.it" rel="nofollow ugc">FastLinkIt</a> platform. Shorten any URL with one click from the post/page editor, auto-shorten external links on save, generate tracked QR codes, and drop in shortcodes (or native Gutenberg blocks) for payments, donations, fundraising, newsletter signups, contact forms, embeddable forms, and booking pages.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Manual URL Shortener</strong> — A sidebar meta box on every post and page lets you paste a URL, shorten it, and copy or insert the short link into your content.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-Shorten on Save</strong> — Enable the option to automatically find and replace all external links in your post content with FastLinkIt short links when you publish or update.</li>
<li><strong>QR Codes</strong> — <code>[flnkit_qr]</code> renders a QR code for any URL (or the current page). In tracked mode it mints a FastLinkIt short link so scans are counted, with custom colours and a one-click PNG download.</li>
<li><strong>Native Gutenberg Blocks</strong> — Every widget is also a block: search the inserter for “FastLinkIt” to add Form, Booking, QR, Payment, Donation, Fundraiser, Subscribe and Contact blocks with a live preview and sidebar settings.</li>
<li><strong>Payments & Donations</strong> — <code>[flnkit_pay]</code> and <code>[flnkit_donate]</code> shortcodes render Stripe/PayPal checkout buttons; <code>[flnkit_fundraise]</code> embeds a fundraising campaign with a progress bar.</li>
<li><strong>Forms</strong> — <code>[flnkit_form]</code> embeds a hosted FastLinkIt form (every field type, validation, auto-resize) on any page or post.</li>
<li><strong>Booking Pages</strong> — <code>[flnkit_booking]</code> embeds a planner so visitors can book appointments without leaving your site.</li>
<li><strong>Newsletter & Contact</strong> — <code>[flnkit_subscribe]</code> adds a mailing-list signup; <code>[flnkit_contact]</code> adds a support/ticket form.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk Contact Sync</strong> — Push your WordPress users (including WooCommerce customers) into your FastLinkIt contacts from the Contacts settings tab, matched by email and tagged for segmentation.</li>
<li><strong>Webhooks</strong> — A signed webhook receiver fires WordPress actions for payment, contact, mailing, and form events so you can hook your own automations.</li>
<li><strong>Plan-Aware</strong> — The plugin checks your FastLinkIt plan limits before creating each short link. If you run out of links, the remaining URLs are left unchanged and the post saves normally.</li>
<li><strong>Short Code Prefix</strong> — Optionally prefix auto-generated short codes (e.g. <code>wp-a1b2c3</code>) to identify WordPress-generated links.</li>
<li><strong>Connection Test</strong> — Verify your API key and connection from the settings page.</li>
<li><strong>Works with Classic & Block Editor</strong> — The “Insert into content” button works with both Gutenberg and the classic TinyMCE editor.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<ul>
<li><code>[flnkit_pay amount="9.99" currency="gbp" description="..."]</code> or <code>[flnkit_pay product_id="..."]</code> — payment button.</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_donate]</code> — donation button with custom amount.</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_fundraise]</code> — fundraising campaign widget with progress bar.</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_form shortcode="my-form"]</code> — embed a hosted form (optional <code>height</code>, <code>width</code>, <code>max_width</code>).</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_booking shortcode="my-planner"]</code> — embed a booking page (optional <code>height</code>, <code>width</code>, <code>max_width</code>).</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_qr url="https://example.com"]</code> — tracked QR code; blank <code>url</code> uses the current page (optional <code>track</code>, <code>size</code>, <code>color</code>, <code>background</code>, <code>ec</code>).</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_subscribe groups="all"]</code> — newsletter signup form.</li>
<li><code>[flnkit_contact]</code> — support/ticket submission form.</li>
</ul>
<p>All of the above are also available as native Gutenberg blocks (search the inserter for “FastLinkIt”).</p>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> FastLinkIt</strong> and enter your API key.</li>
<li>When editing a post or page, use the <strong>FastLinkIt</strong> meta box in the sidebar to shorten any URL.</li>
<li>Optionally enable <strong>Auto-Shorten Links</strong> to replace all external links on save.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Getting an API Key</h3>
<ol>
<li>Sign up at <a href="https://flnk.it/Account/Register" rel="nofollow ugc">flnk.it</a>.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>Account <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> API Keys</strong>.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Generate</strong> and copy the key.</li>
<li>Paste it into the plugin settings.</li>
</ol>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the FastLinkIt API to provide its functionality. By default it talks to <strong>https://flnk.it</strong>, but you can point it at a different FastLinkIt instance from the plugin settings (API URL field). FastLinkIt is the service this plugin is built to integrate with, so a connection is required for the plugin to work — URL shortening, QR codes, the Forms/Products/Contacts/Fundraising lists, the embedded payment, donation, booking, form, subscribe and contact widgets, contact syncing and support tickets all rely on it.</p>
<p>What data is sent, and when:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shortening a URL</strong> (manually, automatically on save, or for a tracked QR code) — the destination URL, a generated short code and an optional title are sent so a short link can be created. Your API key, your site URL and a “wordpress” source identifier are included in the request.</li>
<li><strong>Loading the Forms, Products, Contact Groups or Fundraising lists</strong> in the plugin admin — a request is made to list those items on your account.</li>
<li><strong>A visitor submitting an embedded widget</strong> (contact/ticket form, newsletter subscribe, donation, payment or fundraising widget) — the information they enter (such as name, email, message or amount) is sent so the action can be processed.</li>
<li><strong>Syncing WordPress users</strong> from the Contacts tab — the selected users’ email addresses and names are sent to create or update contacts on your account.</li>
<li><strong>Creating an account, logging in or generating an API key</strong> from the setup wizard — the details you enter are sent to authenticate you.</li>
<li><strong>Embedded Form and Booking widgets</strong> load the hosted page from flnk.it inside an iframe, so a visitor’s browser requests that page directly from flnk.it when they view it.</li>
</ul>
<p>The bundled QR code library runs entirely in the browser; generating a QR image does not by itself contact any external service (though a <em>tracked</em> QR code creates a short link via the API as described above, and scanning one resolves through flnk.it).</p>
<p>This service is provided by FastLinkIt. Please review their terms and privacy policy:</p>
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://flnk.it/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://flnk.it/privacy</li>
</ul>


FastLinkIt – URL Shortener Integration

Shorten URLs, generate QR codes, accept payments & donations, and embed forms, booking pages and contact forms from FastLinkIt — with native blocks.

Codehaveli

Rakesh Roy

<p><strong>Bitly URL Shortener</strong> (Previously Codehaveli Bitly URL Shortener) uses the functionality of Bitly API to generate bitly short link automatically from your WordPress dashboard when you publish new post.</p>
<p>Bitly URL Shortener allows you to connect your WordPress Website to the Bitly API via access token and Group GUID.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Generate Bitly link automatically when publishing posts without leaving your site.</li>
<li>Share Bitly link from your Post List and Post Edit page with social share buttons.</li>
<li>Gutenberg block for displaying social share icons (Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Telegram, WhatsApp).</li>
<li>Support for Custom Post Types with option to choose from your list of post types.</li>
<li>Support for Custom Bitly Domain (for paid Bitly plans).</li>
<li>Generate Bitly link of your old posts with just one click from post list.</li>
<li>WP-CLI support for bulk generating short links via command line.</li>
<li>REST API endpoints for programmatic access to short URL generation.</li>
<li>Post column in admin showing generated short URLs.</li>
<li>Metabox in post edit page for quick access to short URL and share options.</li>
<li>Optimized code with modern PHP 7.4+ features and proper error handling.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Terms of Use</h3>
<p>This is not an official plugin of <a href="https://bitly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bitly.com</a></p>
<p>This plugin only connects your <a href="https://bitly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bitly.com</a> account to your WordPress site.</p>
<p>Please read <a href="https://bitly.com/pages/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">privacy</a> and <a href="https://bitly.com/pages/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of service</a> of <a href="https://bitly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Bitly</a> before using this plugin.</p>
<h3>Bug reports</h3>
<p>Bug reports for Bitly URL Shortener are welcomed in our Bitly URL Shortener <a href="https://github.com/royrakesh/codehaveli-bitly-url-shortener" rel="nofollow ugc">repository on GitHub</a>. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum, and that issues that are not properly qualified as bugs will be closed.</p>
<h3>Further Reading</h3>
<p>For more info on Bitly and Codehaveli, check out the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.codehaveli.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Codehaveli</a> official homepage</li>
<li>Read “How to generate Bitly OAuth access token?” from <a href="https://www.codehaveli.com/how-to-generate-bitly-oauth-access-token/" rel="nofollow ugc">Codehaveli Blog</a></li>
<li>Bitly <a href="https://bitly.is/2XxT9BN" rel="nofollow ugc">API Documentation</a> </li>
<li>Follow Codehaveli on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/codehaveli" rel="nofollow ugc">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/codehaveli/" rel="nofollow ugc">Instagram</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/codehaveli" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a></li>
<li>Plugin <a href="https://github.com/royrakesh/codehaveli-bitly-url-shortener" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub Repository</a></li>
</ul>


Bitly URL Shortener

Bitly URL Shortener uses the functionality of Bitly API to generate Bitly short link without leaving your WordPress site.

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